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...wolf's strong scent from the bushes. Loosed, the dogs spread out fanwise, baying when they catch the trail. Behind them ride the huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield. As he tires, he returns to his home range, begins to run in ever narrowing circles like a fox. At the kill, the hounds pile on their prey, often smother him before they have ripped him badly with their teeth...
...pick-&-shovel corps of Science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished animals, men and civilizations. Recent doings of diggers...
Five pounds lighter from his jaunt afield to Arkansas, Texas, Indiana (TIME, June 22), Franklin Roosevelt settled down last week to the not-so-arduous business of getting rid of Congress. Canceling his trip to the Yale-Harvard boat races, also his week-end yacht cruise, he swept his signature across scores of bills, none of which seemed to cause him great concern. Nor did he bother to put positive pressure on Congress to block or save any important measure. Thus he had time to attend to several other matters...
...Christmas trip through central New York State are being laid with concerts at Rochester on the 26th, at Buffalo on the 27th, and at Syracuse on the 30th. These concerts will be sponsored by the Harvard clubs of the various cities. The expedition may go as far afield as Cleveland or Chicago...
...afternoon. At that time a news candidate will receive a few assignments which will throw him into contact with the ordinary workings of the College. Later on, he will be on the trail of more difficult stories which will take him into the "cellars" of official domiciles and far afield into the environs of Boston...