Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sing's chaplain that the Ossining Bastile harbored many a college graduate are due for another shock when they contemplate the presence of an alleged gentleman swindler on the Harvard faculty. It was bad enough to hear that men who had been higher-educated were slipping from the primrose path in some numbers; it is considerably worse to find that those who are hired to nurture them so carefully are often no better than they should...
...path, of course, is not easy. There is much work to be done, but the eager man will find the rewards equal to the effort. Past experience is not at all necessary; any sophomore is welcome at the meeting on Monday evening, at which candidates will be given further details about the competition and shown around the building. Work will not begin until Tuesday night
...Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway cuts a winding steel path through the forests of Southern Ontario. Near Mile 115 it is sharply hemmed by the Agawa River on one side, an 800-ft. cliff on the other. Approaching this spot on his regular freight run one day last week, Fireman Graham McLeod saw a big grey timber wolf loping down the track about 500 yd. ahead. He knew what to do. As the train caught up, he crawled out on the cowcatcher, seized the wolf by its tail. Strong teeth slashed his fingers badly before he got his prize into...
...yapping and whining of running fits. The dog is still unlikely to bite persons it knows but will soon begin to "run mad." first at any dog it sees, later in a set course (unlike the aimless circling of running fits), snapping silently at anything in its path. Some mad dogs snap so hard they break their teeth and jaws. The final stage is paralysis, coma, death. The normal course of rabies: one week. Best procedure with a dog suspected early: isolate, feed lightly, do not touch...
...Millions of Germans revere Hitler as the outstanding German, as the man who' after 14 years of study alone knows how Germany can be saved. . . . Yet the President has blocked Hitler's path to the Chancellory with impossible condi tions." Jeered a Communist Deputy, "I thought Hitler could do everything...