Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back East, he sold his first sketch, Indian Scouts on Geronimo's Trail, to Harper's Weekly for $10. In the next 23 years he produced more than 2,000 pictures, some 15 sculptures (in bronze), illustrated 73 books (13 of them his own travels...
...cowboy star died, was disinherited by the will; most of the estate's $1 million will be used to run the California ranch as a public park. Meanwhile, the public turned out by the thousand for a full-fashioned Hollywood funeral. The organist played Twilight on the Trail, and Crooner Rudy Vallee sang sad songs...
...trail last week was Dr. Frank C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico. In 1941 he followed the trail to Alaska, where he found the characteristic Folsom dart points. This summer he will dig in Saskatchewan. His dream is to ransack Siberia, where the earliest Americans presumably came from...
Like most Norse runners, Strand prefers practicing on soft ground or a pine-needled trail rather than on a cinder track. Although he brought three pairs of Swedish shoes with him because he thinks U.S. track shoes are inferior, Strand ran two miles twice a day in his bare feet. Last week he made his U.S. debut...
What often does the trick is a quick sale, a quick repurchase by the dealer. But "used" 1946 models were so profitable that dealers competed ruthlessly to get them. Some dealers, ready cash in their hands, actually trail new cars through the streets of London. One day recently on Portland Street (London's auto row), a man had just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth...