Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarm. Highways were blocked, drawbridges raised, a swarm of officers and two U. S. Army pursuit planes put on the trail. After a few miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
Three kinds of earthquake waves speed through the earth from the epicentre. Fastest are P (Push) waves which travel about 5 mi. per sec. They take a nearly straight path through the earth to the recording station. Then come the S (Shear) waves which make about 3 mi. per sec., follow the same path as the P waves. Last come the L (Long) waves which ripple around Earth's surface at about 2 mi. per sec. The transverse shear waves are the crux of an unsettled controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they...
Despite this original intention by the Attorney General, his crime conference jogged along the well-trodden path of its predecessors with conferees bobbing up & down to make familiar suggestions. Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation wanted an end to "political pressure" on enforcement agencies. Commissioner H. J. Anslinger of the Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics, whose men over the previous weekend had rounded up 793 dope dealers and addicts, proposed special wards in county sanatoriums to cure criminal and noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced...
...study the U. S. he loves to paint. He was born in Neosho, Mo. in 1889. Says he: "My father [Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton] was a lawyer and politician. He came from Tennessee shortly after the Civil War, riding a horse and knocking the snakes out of his path with a long stick. He was a great-nephew of Thomas Hart Benton, the Senator from Missouri and Andrew Jackson's lieutenant. My family table talk was entirely devoted to law and politics. Southwest Missouri was, and is yet in those parts in which the automobile road has not penetrated...
Customarily the path of good fiction in the U. S. runs from East to West. A book is published in Manhattan and the story sold to Hollywood. Last week witnessed the process reversed. Out of Hollywood came a scenario, The Mighty Barnum, in book form...