Word: footprints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interest grew feverish last fortnight when M. A. Wetherell, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Zoological Society, an African big-game hunter, breathlessly announced that he had found a strange, fresh footprint on Loch Ness's banks. Cried he: "It is a four-fingered beast and has feet, or pads, about eight inches across. I should judge it to be a very powerful soft-footed animal about 20 ft. long...
Londoners who viewed Photographer Irvine's cinema found the picture too indistinct to be convincing. Some were sure they were looking at nothing more than a large gnarled log floating on the lake. On a plaster cast of Hunter Wetherell's footprint the Natural History Museum in London reported: "We are unable to find any significant difference between these impressions and those made by a hippopotamus...
...taking the physical examinations, a second the mental examination, a third the job & pay. Postal Savings requires fingerprints of all depositors. Many banks do likewise for illiterate depositors, foreign draft buyers and safety deposit vault renters. Many corporations (notably insurance companies) fingerprint job applicants. Some hospitals are beginning to footprint newborn babes for identification...
...program for the day is as follows: Welcome, W. C. Greene '11, associate professor of Greek and Latin, president of the section; Modern Survivals of Roman Paganism, Miss M. E. Ireland, Malden High School; "Just a Footprint on the Sands of Time"; A Discussion of Timely Topics, Dr. G. A. Land, Newton High School; Hamlet and the Iliad, Professor L. P. McCauley, Weston College; and Some New Glimpses of Old Rome (Illustrated), Dr. D. M. Robathan, Wellesley College...
...beside the smooth greens, across the well-watered fairways. Not a particularly long course, with only two holes where a tournament player needs wood for his second shot, Merion is notable for its formidable par fours, its exacting threes, and for an old quarry that sprawls like an ungainly footprint through three fairways at its north end. Of the 168 entrants, the most important victim of the quarry and the white faces was Harrison Johnston, defending champion. He had a first round of 83. Other good men qualified but slipped out early-Francis Ouimet. T. Philip Perkins...