Word: detours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While motorists made a twelve-mile detour to another bridge, the Texas Rangers under mighty Captain Tom Hickman answered Governor Murray's criticism that "all they can do is cuss and shoot craps" with a public demonstration of their marksmanship. Captain Hickman shooting from the hip hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 ft. Ranger Goss, firing his pistol upside down, split a playing card...
...bacteriologists, with training and Work at Harvard, Canal Zone, Rockefeller Institute, New York City's studious Board of Health. He is a Doctor of Public Health, not of Medicine. Bacterial chemistry and metabolism had been the main fields of his research until he detoured to the study of intestinal bacteriology. That detour became a main road which led him to last week's pronouncement to some 300 scientists gathered on Northwestern's McKinlock campus...
...position today. Since the production of one of his first plays. "Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model", he has been one of America's successful playwrights. His play "Icebound" was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Some of the other popular plays written by him are "The Detour", "The Nervous Wreek", and "Lazybones...
...upon the Patapsco fc (Water-Of-Many-White-Caps) River at the spot where, on a British warship in 1814, Prisoner Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." Far to the east are the smoke and glare of the great new Bethlehem Steel mills. North of Baltimore planes detour to give a wide berth to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Thence: Havre de Grace racetrack; Philadelphia's desolate Sesquicentennial Exposition site; Hog Island...
Making a long detour, the monks of St. Bernard reached their hospice safely. They were puzzled, vexed by their experience. The two hospices of St. Bernard have offered hospitality and aid for almost a thousand years to all wayfarers, regardless of race, creed or party...