Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lone Peak is an 11,250-ft. sentinel on the edge of the valley up which WAE flies on the Salt Lake radio beam. This beam is notorious for "multiple effects" (splitting around mountains). Pilot Samson crashed 35 miles off course, apparently had lost the beam altogether. If he had been just a little higher, he would have cleared Hardy Ridge, had a safe path on to the airport. As it was, the plane was smashed into confetti and completely buried by snow. At week's end no bodies had yet been recovered and postal inspectors stood guard with...
...literary front of 15 years ago, if they wanted a man to encourage the van or to harass the foe from the rear, Burton Rascoe was just the man. This week, when he published his long-promised reminiscences, he was no longer even a front-line sentinel. The tide of literary battle had flowed over him, left him well in the rear, guarding nothing more strategic than a few abandoned ammunition dumps. How his militant literary career soared so far is the explicit theme of Before I Forget; why it never rose far is the implicit question which between...
...Officially admitted in the registration was ownership of the Milwaukee Sentinel, ostensibly a Paul Block property. Publisher Block leases the Sentinel from Publisher Hearst. Last week Mr. Hearst leased his Washington Herald to Mrs. Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid New York Daily News. In seven years as its editor & publisher, she has seen its circulation rise from...
...tonight, as the lonely French sentinel paces the bank of the Rhine, all the world wonders with him what fate has in store for trembling Europe. And tonight in Paris Leon Blum goes to bed, as all men must, wondering what Hitler's next move will be. TIME MARCHES...
...Editor Arthur M. Nelson of the Sentinel entered the Penny Pencil department for the Crowell prize. With him Country Home's Editor Wheeler McMillen agreed on the excellence of Mrs. Eisele's accounts of threshing time, preserve making, poultry raising, the minutiae of farm life, observed with a humorous eye, set down with a sensitive pencil...