Word: prowl
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After a two-week recess to allow Counsel William A. Gray and his investigators to prowl around Wall Street for more data, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed hearings on the buying & selling practices of U. S. stock exchanges. Having heard a lot about post-crash short-selling (TIME, April 25. et seq.), the Committee now went back to the great pre-crash bull pools...
...oratory. Besides unhinging his office door, to fulfill his countless campaign pledges Mayor Dore must also cut all city salaries over $3,000, including his own, must dismiss the superintendent of the city-owned street railway system and, like Theodore Roosevelt two generations ago in New York City, must prowl the streets in disguise after dark to see if the police are properly beating their beats...
...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...
...president; it employs drivers, giving them a percentage of their cab earnings. Oldest in Chicago, it has the best and most numerous stands. The Checker Cab Co. is newer, has poorer stands; it leases its machines to drivers, who are unionized (Chicago Yellow drivers are not); the drivers must prowl around Chicago for fares. Checker drivers as individuals have fought the Yellow drivers as clansmen and as scabs; soon forgetting their business rivalry, the chauffeurs fought for love of fighting and out of the hatred which is bred in taxicab drivers by the rigors of their profession. They turned...
...soft-sheed but sternsouled guardians who prowl the purlieus of the examination rooms, their cost for the past two semesters of 1926-27 amounted to $3.053.50. The monitors' price, if may be seen, approaches very nearly three times the stationery expense. Some rapid calculation demonstrates the entire outlay as $5.316.35 per College annum...