Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon a metallic mass swooped in a long arc over Maine and Massachusetts. Groundlings saw its orange-red path, heard a mighty rumbling and hissing. Somewhere above the Massachusetts coastline the meteor exploded. At Salisbury Beach a crowd of Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape...
Next morning at dawn a United Airliner with eight dozing passengers was flying west over Solano County, Calif., at 7,000 ft. Co-pilot Archie Anderson had the wheel; the pilot was in the passengers' cabin. Suddenly Anderson saw a great dazzling ball in his path which he afterward said was as "big as a house." Instinctively he whipped his plane into a bank. The passengers snapped awake and the pilot rushed forward in time to see the meteor shatter like a mammoth bomb. Glowing fragments streamed past, plunged earthward. The plane was unharmed. But on the ground...
Dorothy, the second daughter, always more popular than her elder sister Margaret, marries young, goes off to California to live. In the worrying years that follow, the folks like to think of how prosperously perfect her path has been. It is not until they visit her, years later, that this comforting vision fails them...
...Harkness Hoot" will not be published this year, another colorful chapter in the history of Yale undergraduate publications comes to a close. The course of a radical publication at Yale follows a definite tradition, inevitably ending either in conservatism, extinction, or both. The "Hoot" has chosen the more consistent path...
Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...