Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the weather was playing a different set of tricks over Labrador. There a high pressure area created an atmospheric trough down which whistled a dry northeast storm right across the path of the oncoming hurricane. The northeaster smote hardest along the New Jersey shore on a Sunday. Holiday fishermen had their craft capsized by the onslaught of wind and wave, were dragged to safety by alert, courageous Coast Guardsmen. Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes...
...suggestion in 1931. Smiling, straightforward, and cordial to all newcomers, Mr. Leighton in his third-story office in University Hall directly above that of the President and Corporation, has ironed out difficulties which since the beginning of time have harassed the Freshman, and is constantly striving to make the path smoother...
...Timothy Crowe, were convicted after a trial which brought out amazing tales of corrupt extravagance. After 1927 the Sanitary District's expenditures had jumped from 38 to 55 million per year. Its payroll was padded double with nonworkers. It spent $1,000,000 on a useless bridle path along McCormick Boulevard ("From Nowhere to Nowhere") which should have cost less than $300,000. It set up dummy concerns to buy and sell building materials at outrageous prices. With his indictment quashed, Engineer Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious...
...John C. Lyle, mail carrier of Crawfordsville, Ga., was kidnapped by three escaping convicts, driven in his own car to Wake Forest, N. C., freed. A St. Paul physician named Walter H. Hedberg said he was shot through the ear, beaten, drugged, left in his car in the path of a train when he refused to mutilate a chiropractor at the request of thugs who seized him. What to Do. The kidnapping and killing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. changed the law of the land. Because abduction across a state line is now a Federal offense (punishable one year...
...experience of 1933's graduates rivals that of the man of 1908, then our young graduate has a further task, that of making education a training to live, to work, and to enjoy, rather than a medieval and purposeless series of intellectual hurdles along the traditional primrose path of youth...