Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticizing departmental recommendations as a criterion for admittance to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean Chase emphasizes the importance of a candidate's undergraduate record in his annual report to the President, released yesterday...
...distinguished undergraduate record," Mr. Chase writes, "furnishes the best evidence of ability to pursue graduate study with profit. The high percentage of failure among men admitted on the recommendation of their department should make us stricter in our entrance requirements...
...last week the Justice Department got a tip that Nelson, who had been hunted in the Chicago area for some six weeks, was heading for a house near suburban Barrington, Ill. Two by two. in fast new Hudsons. agents of the Department's Chicago division rolled out for the chase. Together went pleasant, round-faced Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, 35, and clean-cut Herman E. Hollis, 28. Both were graduates of Washington law schools, both participants in the catching & killing of Dillinger. Cowley had also been in at the death of Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd (TIME, Oct. 29). Hollis...
Near Barrington about mid-afternoon Agents Cowley and Hollis spotted Illinois license No. 639-578 on a Ford containing two men and a blonde woman. Recognizing that as Nelson's number they gave hot chase. The proprietress of a filling station saw the two automobiles come roaring down the highway at 70-odd m. p. h., each one spitting bullets. Near the filling station, the agents pulled abreast of the fleeing outlaws. Tires shrieked as the Ford swerved into a side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring...
...rural Mursley last week Schoolmaster Bozman sat dozing by his fireside when suddenly a hard-pressed fox came leaping through his windowpane, followed by the entire pack of Whaddon Chase hounds. Run to earth behind Schoolmaster Bozman's bookcase, the fox was torn to bits with much baying and yelping by the triumphant hounds...