Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hauptmann at the State Prison in Trenton by the spring of 1935 went relentlessly on. In the earth below the Hauptmann garage New York police found a barrel of nails such as those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose...
...crowd of Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke which obscured the sun was reported. Elsewhere at least six other meteorites were declared to have fallen in the water or on land. Only meteorite recovered was the Salisbury Beach fragment. When cool enough...
Jerry Day (Gary Cooper) and his lady love (Carole Lombard) have for three years been tripping a light trail about the globe living a happy, though rather vacuous existence and gaining their daily champagne by virtue of Jerry's ability to sell hypothetical gold mines and other sleight of hand. Just when their accumulated hangovers and debts begin to overwhelm them Jerry receives a letter from his brother-in-law asking him for his brother-in-law's love for the child, the guardianship of Jerry's child by a former marriage. Thinking to profit by Jerry returns to America...
Only the tail end of the Jeans presidential discourse was concerned with science in industry. His topic was "The New World-Picture of Modern Physics"?a picture he has displayed to some 300,000 readers in thin, lucid books. Sir James again led his hearers over the trail from the comfortable Victorian universe of jelly-like ethers, billiard-ball particles, gears and levers to the disconcerting, fantastic universe built by Rutherford, Planck. Bohr, Einstein. Heisenberg. Schrodinger, Dirac and others where the electron dances beyond space and time in a field of mathematical formulae...
...literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James Fenimore Cooper. Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte have yet to be crowded out of their frontier freeholds, may still be said to have squatters' rights. But last week Author Grace Zaring Stone trespassed on Cooper's hunting-ground, and if she makes many more such successful expeditions, Cooper's title to the land will be considerably shaken. The Cold Journey may not prove as popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never...