Word: scours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leming, Tex. 11-year-old Merle Springer had most of her clothes torn off and was stabbed 33 times with a penknife, so that she died in a ditch only 300 yd. from her home. A mammoth posse was organized last week to scour the countryside for her assailant...
Immediately 700 police were sent to scour Queensborough. That night, patrolmen dressed as women sat with plainclothesmen in parked cars wherever lovers were known to hold trysts. Suspects were arrested in New York State, New Jersey, even as far away as Philadelphia, but the Misses May and Ring failed to recognize any of them. More wild, coded notes to the police and the Journal kept special police squads rushing about Long Island and Westchester, to no avail...
...Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified all search parties, sent men to dig in the drifts for the bodies, to scour the adjacent coast. Last remaining ray of hope: skiis which Eielson and Borland carried with them were missing from the wrecked plane...