Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a fruitless 24 hours, the party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...
These seven Counselors will hold, apparently, one year appointments and are to perform no other teaching function than that of armchair pedagogues who sit and wait for pupils to ferret them out. From the lively group of Yardlings already on the trail of Americana under the direction of the Freshman pathfinder, and from the number who responded in one House to the experiment of an English tutor, there is certainly no lack of enthusiasm, which situation graces with practicality the scheme of House Counselors. Nevertheless, it seems plausible that the seven can be of greater service to the Plan...
...State telephoned the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan last fortnight and asked that 50 blank passports be sent to him at a midtown hotel, agents of the Department of Justice followed the shipment. Well they might, for the Under Secretary of State is Mr. Sumner Welles. The trail led from the hotel to a bar, to a brush-headed young man named Guenther Gustave Rumrich. Mr. Rumrich-born in Chicago to Austrian parents 27 years ago and a deserter from the U. S. Army-was reported to have wanted the passport blanks for the use of an international...
Blood hounds were brought from Meridian. Miss, and they immediately picked up the trail which led to the vestibule of the high school, from there to a Negro woman's house and finally to another Negro house where a crap game was in progress. The dogs made straight for a drunken Negro who was dozing in a corner...
...days pass, the trail back to November 14 and before grows colder. Rumors are increasingly hard to follow up. Whether the occasion was a suicide or a crime may never be determined