Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apparently, officers may enter and search a man's house without a warrant. If so, this does away with conventional Anglo-Saxon red tape...
...nights are short, fifty guard ships have been mustered, each one of which will shadow a liquor ship and prevent, it possible, any intercourse with the shore. The rum fleet is to be besieged, blockaded on the high seas, until each ship is forced to play other waters in search of food...
...going to me her guardian, the source of her wealth the engineer encounters him drugged and near death in his automobile before his house. Detectives are called. In their presence and that of his family the guardian, about to revive, is shot dead. No one sees the murderer. The search amid exciting intrigue continues all night in a house guarded by a cordon of detectives. Towards morning the murderer is discovered and the book ends...
...boat-base at Etah, Greenland, MacMillan will explore the ice-gap of Northern Greenland, examining and mapping the interior from the air as it has never been possible to do afoot; and from an air-base on the upper tip of Axel Heiberg Land will fly westward in search of the dubious Crocker Land...
...seemed not unlikely, therefore, that Amundsen, too, might search for Crocker Land; might set foot thereon, if such a land exists, and claim it for Norway. As Amundsen plans to fly north in June and MacMillan does not leave Maine until June 15, the chance of Amundsen's making a prior claim seemed nearly as good as the chance of anyone finding anything to claim...