Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken into a gallop when he sent last week's twelve away on the first score. Going to the first turn of the triangular track, Fred Egan edged Brown Berry out of the ruck. He watched Mary Reynolds slip into the lead, watched horse after horse try to catch her, break irritably into a gallop and be taken to the outside to calm down. Last to try it was tough little Brown Berry. Mary Reynolds watched him come, and slacken. Then she pulled her sulky wheels in front of his nose, slammed home in 2:03¾, three lengths...
...DANGEROUS SECRETS- Maxwell March-Crime Club ($2). All the men who loved a certain girl died, so Scotland Yard's undercover man sacrificed celibacy to catch England's master blackmailer...
MURDER IN BERMUDA - Willoughby Sharp-Kendall ($2). In crimeless Bermuda, a comely girl is stabbed. The astonished police trace the actions of doubtful tourists and a dead man; catch a murderer and a kidnapper...
...this time Cubans who had felt the clutches of the Porra, who had languished in slimy jails or knew that the Porra had murdered a friend or relative, started a wild manhunt through the streets of Havana to slay and trample every Porrista they could catch. Frenzy grew maddest when Colonel Antonio Jiminez, dread Chief of the Porra, was sighted on the Prado. "There's Jiminez! It's Jiminez, the Porrista! Kill...
...good day for a sail-fresh breezes were blowing-and Student Schmidt thought he might stay up until afternoon, so he carried a bottle of drinking water, a few slices of black bread. He sailed south along a ridge 40 mi. or so, swinging back & forth to catch the up-currents that gave altitude, wheeled around and headed home again. Dusk fell, but breezes continued fresh. Student Schmidt thought he might as well keep on sailing. Idly he thought about endurance records. The German record was 16½ hr.; but a U. S. Army officer, Lieut. William A. Cocke...