Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight last week a strange automobile whirled up to the steps of the Kurski railroad station. Two dark little men jumped out and ran into the ticket office, first depositing a very large, very neat bundle on the top step. Some sneak thieves were waiting in the shadow of a pillar for just such an opportunity. Quick as a flash they pounced on the package, carried it off to an empty corner of the yards. To the horror of the sneak thieves, the package did not contain food, clothes, or boots, as they hoped, but the strangled body of Professor...
...twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors beat down like a whole squadron of ordinary planes, stilling the clamor of streets and avenues as she passed over. People, peering from windows and sidewalks were amazed at a hull which is three winged Pullman sleepers in capacity. The shadow of her huge wings flickered over the city's roofs surrounded by moving specks which were the shadows of accompanying planes. The DO-X settled, with hardly any splash, in New York Harbor, discharged 60 passengers, took the air again lor Glenn Curtiss Airport where she was to be inspected, overhauled...
...return of liquor or drinking; one has never left the country, the other has never ceased. The 32,000 speakeasies in New York make record breaking flights to Cuba to get a drink a foolish pursuit. Even here in the Nation's Capital and right in the shadow of the White House, the Department of Justice, the Prohibition Bureau, and the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals, thousands-yes, thousands-of speakeasies have been raided...
...Moses Swick last week hid in the laboratory recesses of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He had developed a method of making the kidneys visible to x-ray photography. The method is so original, reliable and useful that urologists dignify it with the name Swick Method. The shadow material is called lopax in the U. S., Uroselectan in Germany. Its development was the result of chance, curiosity and an inference...
...arrest and trial of Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg for the murder of notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff (Vivian Gordon). Stein and Greenberg were subsequently acquitted (TIME, July 27). The Association gave the money, but kept quiet about it, because the Bischoff murder for a time cast a shadow over the Police Department...