Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves withdrew all but five or six copies, which fell into the hands of the police. In their eagerness to confiscate every available copy of the Lampoon parody of the Literary Digest the police took over a supply of the genuine Digest, but soon returned them. Speaking of the search conducted by the police agents, Felix, the proprietor of a Harvard Square newsstand, asserted, "This is the most exciting day we have for 15 years." The proprietor of another establishment, at the corner of Harvard Square and Brattle, declared that the agents raided his store with the thoroughness of prohibition...
...lining of a cap left by Elisha Kent Kane in 1853, and a record reading "All Well." He was the first to reach and explore the northern, eastern, and southern shores of North Cornwall and the first to reach Finlay Land, seen some sixty years ago by the Franklin Search Expedition. The trip upon which he will embark in June will be for the purpose of investigating southwestern Greenland, a land about which mystery clings even now. About 1000 A.D. this section of Greenland was inhabited by some 7,000 Norsemen, but since they have since completely disappeared, apparently without...
...remarkable feature of it is that there is no story at all. It is a colossal travel picture from lands where travelers never go. In the heart of the continent of Asia there are millions and millions of miles inhabited only by semi-civilized nomads. The search of these nomads for their own food, for their cattle's fodder is the plot of this peculiar picture. There are no actors, just tribes and herds, mountains...
Lately, the Federated Women's Clubs of Des Moines petitioned The Des Moines Register that crime news be segregated on an inside page, so that children and general readers would not have to search through crime to find the worthwhile news of the day. Last week, all week, the Register tried this "experiment." Crime became a department, along with Sport and Market news...
...into the city lay black, scorching, smoking. More than 1,700 houses had been destroyed, nearly 10,000 people made homeless. Nobody was reported dead, but ten people were listed as missing, more than 100 injured and 50 children, separated during the fire from their parents, began a hectic search for their fathers and mothers. The damage...