Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over northern California spread a general alarm. Highways were blocked, drawbridges raised, a swarm of officers and two U. S. Army pursuit planes put on the trail. After a few miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
...good reading, but we believe it can be made exciting reading, we believe there are new things to be found and reported. And as a newspaper the "News" bids final farewell to the delusion that it is meant solely to reflect undergraduate opinion. Here our predecessor has blazed the trail for us by pointing out the dullness and the futility of trying to enunciate what is representative in the welter of student thought. We go further in maintaining that if our opinions are worth expressing, they must lead, they must be in the forefront...
...pious folk suddenly became aware that acute pangs of childbirth were troubling Mrs. J. E. Graham of Carbondale, Pa. and Mrs. W. N. Wagner of Waterford. Mich. Jounced by the waters beyond endurance, they presented such a spectacle of woe that even with bandits hot on the junks trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous deliveries-from Mrs. Graham a daughter, then from Mrs. Wagner a son. Piling back aboard the junks, the 36 who had become 38, tore...
...Adams Carter, Captain of the skiing team, was the winner in the trial race of aspirants held yesterday over the new Tuckerman Ravine Trail on Mt. Washington. The trail, designed by Coach Charles N. Proctor, is two and one-half miles long, 40 feet wide, and at one place has a 25-degree drop...
...race will take place over a mile and three quarters of the two and a half mile trail. The steepest single grade of the race is a twenty-five degree drop; the course averages a forty foot width. Base of operations will be the Mountaineering Club cabin on Mt. Washington and the race will begin at noon. From the placing at the finish of the race it is expected that the nucleus of the team will be selected by Coach Charles N. Proctor...