Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...About 1,000 visitors filed into the prison after nightfall. As the rule requires, all were searched. Ten, it was discovered, carried flasks of whiskey. Warden Lewis E. Lawes commented: "If you searched the ordinary theatre audience of that size it's quite likely you'd find more than that...
...another surprise awaited me in Tun-huang. In the course of my travels through Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had even received one of these manscripts, a Buddhist scroll of the eighth century, from Duke Lan, a cousin of the Chinese Emperor, against whom I had fought at the time of the siege of the Peking Legation in 1900, but who had since become my friend. Of course I was eager...
There are approximately 800,000 college or university students in the U. S. What if an editor could find a common denominator to their interests and publish a magazine that each of these 800,000 would read? To probers of student psychology the publication would be a telltale document. And to tailor, tobacconist, maker of sweets or shoes-what a medium for national advertising...
Live stock breeders have a conceit which thoughtless urbanites find quaint: if it is worthwhile to raise good, chunky stock, it is worthwhile to raise good, chunky boys and girls. Hence at each live stock show judges pick the country's healthiest adolescent. Prizewinners last week were strong Thelma Svarstad, 17, of Brown County, S. Dak., and husky William Tobias, 15, of Saginaw County, Mich. Thelma weighs 122 lbs., stands 5 ft. 2 in., William weighs 130 lbs., stands...
...soldiers grinning and eating apples as they marched to an imaginary banquet in Paris, airplane battles, mine explosions, Von Hindenburg chewing his mustache, the Kaiser, with his dwarfish, withered arm held sideways, looking gingerly through a telescope, Russians annihilating a last nest of snipers in a taken town; you find to your surprise that diagrams can be more exciting than even such an excellent War-picture as The Big Parade...