Word: near
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander and "Huck" Bryant joined the hunt but followed an idea of their own. They knew that the bushes along Potlatch Creek near Julietta make a perfect hideout. They went and looked. Sure enough, there lay four men asleep, and a fifth whom the alarms had not mentioned. The boys tiptoed away, came back with armed aid. The arrests were made without a fight. Lieut. Governor Kinne identified his four kidnapers. The police knew the fifth man as "Seattle George" Norman, Northwest desperado, leader of the gang. Kinne's abductors confessed they had sought to steal a car while...
High over the Austrian and Swiss Alps last week drifted a mountainous white cloud. Slowly it flattened out until it covered most of Bavaria and the lower Rhineland, hung motionless in the air for three days. Astronomer Director Wolf of the Königstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg squinted at the white pall through telescopes and announced that it was a mass of finely powdered lava blown high in the air from erupting Vesuvius (TIME. June 17). He warned Bavarians to expect the usual volcanic twilight phenomenon - the whole sky turning orange at sunset and staying so long after...
...eleventh plane flew across the North Atlantic last week, ten years to the day after the first non-stop transoceanic flight. Three young Frenchmen?Jean Assolant, René Lefevre and Armeno Lotti. Jr.? made last week's crossing, from Old Orchard, Me., to Oyamers, near Santander. Spain, 3,128 flying miles, in 29 hr. 52 min. Neither crossing, distance nor time was exceptional...
Last week George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
...technique of catching wild horses consists in camping near them until they have become comparatively tolerant of the proximity of man, then in edging them slowly toward the corral. The corral has a funnel shaped entrance wide at the outside. Into the wide part troop the unsuspecting horses, then the passageway narrows and soon they pour through the funnel's spout and into the pen. Last week Catcher Skelton and his band, either because of natural exuberance or because of the upsetting effect of a bad thunderstorm, stampeded a bunch of horses on their way to the corral. There...