Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baton was passed, as Holy Cross was more adept at this art. Watters managed to hold his rival about even, and Kane in a piece of fine running made up all but five yards of the distance between himself and his man, but could not quite breast the thread ahead...
...waterfall, roared in his ears; he heard a thudding step behind him; a thread brushed his chest- and someone was wrapping him in a blanket, thumping him on the back, telling him he had made it, had beaten Loucks by a yard after six miles. Third-100 yards behind-struggled Arthur Hillman of Maine, and behind him the gasping, wavering, dogged pack...
...Swiss frontier nips off a bit of Lago Maggiore, famed azure cradle of les Isles Borromees lies the little town of Lacarno, at what is said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...
...Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing a small container filled...
...Western oil fields, there is a type of itinerant genius who roams about with an ivory ball on a silk thread, by means of which he assures the gullible that he can divine buried fortunes in oil. He is known as a "doodlebug" and laughed at. Inventor Perry's reluctance to have his Indicator given publicity arose from fear lest he be thought one of these...