Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poison is the weapon; the motive, gain. The author first shows the victim's death, then the murderer's modus operandi. Inspector French is brought forward on the trail. In the ensuing hunt the reader feels himself the quarry. Explanation of detection follows, with Inspector French being raised in rank once again...
Proctor and Herbert S. Sise '34 led a group of varsity ski team candidates last weekend over the new trail on North Uncanoonuo in Southern New Hampshire. He tried the candidates out on "Death Corner," a wide gash in the mountainside where the trail has a twist with reverse banking at the foot of a steep descent. Proctor had them practice stem and pure Christiana turns before they ended the day by a run in a blinding snow storm...
...went to War. Night after night for ten weeks Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, No. 1 evangelist of his day, packed the 20,000-seat tabernacle John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others had provided for him. His loud acrobatics moved 100,000 sinners to "hit the trail...
...Dartmouth, Carnival at Hanover, February 9 and 10; the Middlebury Carnival, February 12 and 13; the Harvard ski meet, an intramural affair on Mt. Washington, February 25; the Gunstock Race of the White Mountain Ski Runners on Mt. Belknap, March 4; the Eastern Downhill Race in the Taft Trail, Mt. Cannon, March 18; the Nanson Race on Mt. Washington, March 25; and the newly organized Harvard, Dartmouth Meet which this year is to be held in Tuckerman Ravine, Mt. Washington, April...
...drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right leg. Said...