Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet's pep talks which many a time sent the credulous Vagabond scampering into the vernal woods seeking that all-instructive impulse and the rather abstruse wisdom of the woodland linnet. Though the Vagabond returned from these escapades usually not a whit wiser, still he feels the chase was worth the leather; even if today he does think differently...
Early in the afternoon the whole cross country squad traveled by car to the Brookline Country Club for a practise session over the fairways and bunkers. Everything ran along smoothly for the first part of the chase, the squad driving well, approaching carefully to avoid irate golfers, and sinking long putts over smooth greens...
...incident was finished by the officers agreeing to lead the pack back across the Municipal course to the Country Club. The cycle whirred into action, jerked ahead, and was away across the grass. Playfair called on his teammates, and ably seconded by Channing, dashed in pursuit. The chase led over weary miles, now the cycle, now the cross country team ahead. Finally, in desperation, the officer pulled up, mopped his brow, and, apparently, confessed his defeat...
...half minutes after the first harrier leaves the barrier this afternoon, Jaakko's five Varsity entries will give chase in the annual University Cross Country Handicap Meet...
Like Mr. Choate, whose father was the late Ambassador to Great Britain, Judge Hoyt has a famed ancestor. His grandfather, Salmon Portland Chase, whose portrait adorns $10,000 bills, was Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and later (1864-73) Chief Justice of the U. S. Grandson Hoyt has won distinction for himself as a champion and judge of children. In 1908 he became the youngest (31) judge ever appointed to New York's Court of Special Sessions, helped start the fight which led to the adoption of a constitutional amendment creating separate children's courts throughout the State...