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Word: lair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proof of this assumption, Professor Sorokin has done a good service in freeing the public from its incorrect conception of detective methods, gleaned from pulp magazines. His description of Holmes' methods might be opened to technical discussion, however, for Sherlock often tracked the criminal to his lair by identifying bits of fallen hair, bloodstains, and mysterious footprints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLEUTHS' METHODS ARE DISCREDITED BY SOROKIN | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Dick Harlew's Varsity eleven invaded the Bulldeg's lair way back in November, but the Elis are still smarting from the 7 to 0 setback which the Crimson pinned on them in the rain-drenched Yale Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI LINE COACH WELLS TELLS MOVIE STORY ON H-Y CONTEST | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

...report of them. Then the Widener Beast sat up on its hind legs, smoothed its scales, and smilingly queried, "May we trace the books and send you a card?" The spider could no better entice the fly. "Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast has never sent him a card. Some thirty times our tutor has baited it, but the prey eludes the trap. Mournfully we suspect that somewhere in Widener even now there is a modified Jonah who has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

...revenge the Varsity baseball team will journey to Nickerson Field to tackle Boston University in its own lair today at 4 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPEFUL VARSITY NINE FACES B.U. TEAM TODAY ON OPPONENTS DIAMOND | 5/4/1937 | See Source »

...moved by reading some 50,000 words of his private daily diary covering 1936. In Oriental eyes there was nothing preposterous about all thisidnapped Premier & Generalissimo's extremely businesslike and beauteous Wellesley-graduate wife, Mme Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), left Nanking courageously by plane for the kidnappers' lair at Sian in Central China. With her flew her brother, T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Bank of China, and that enigmatic Australian "adviser," William H. Donald, who has been attached at various times for a number of years to both Kidnapper Chang and Kidnappee Chiang. They alighted amid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Dictator Unkidnapped | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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