Word: creep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boats splashed away from the start and then settled down to keep within striking distance of Washington, making the early pace. One mile down the river, Washington was still leading, with Syracuse and Navy close behind when the race began to tighten. First Cornell, then California began to creep up on the leaders. At the Railroad Bridge, three miles from the start, Syracuse dropped back. Cornell and California, passing Washington, were fighting each other for the lead. The fight went on down the last mile of the river, level and murky in a late afternoon drizzle. Twenty-five strokes from...
...defendant because Supreme Court Justice Paul Bonynge charged it solemnly to ponder whether, to a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, injuries and pains could be real (TIME, June 25). This spring a higher court ordered a new trial, holding that Justice Bonynge had erred in letting Christian Science "creep into the trial in a manner inviting, to the plaintiff's prejudice, personal issues between her and the jury." Last week in Mineola a new jury awarded Mrs. Kirk $750 in real money for the real injuries she suffered from George Cisler's real automobile...
...Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional is because the old-fashioned paraphernalia have not been improved on. Author Marlowe shows a new way to make flesh creep...
...reads the Boston papers at all, it is well to read more than one of them. Because somewhere between or among the reports of the day's news as set forth in their respective columns, the actual facts of an event are apt to creep in. Differences of editorial policy are common and acknowledged, yet it is not often that one is treated to such marvelously varied front-page "interpretations" of the same news story...
...CREEP SHADOW ! - A. Merritt - Crime Club...