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Word: trail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gone Away, an old North Carolina love song; Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, an Elizabethan ballad still sung in the Southern mountains; the square dancers' Old Joe Clark; the spiritual Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho; the cowboys' Old Chisholm Trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composition by the Numbers | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

After a strong start on the Charles, in which they finished ahead of Princeton and M. I. T. although behind Cornell, the Crimson eight faltered later in the last half mile on the Severn to trail in last at Annapolis behind those three boats as well as five others...

Author: By Thomas M. Gallie jr., | Title: Varsity Crew to Leave by Plane Saturday For Special West Coast Regatta June 22 | 6/13/1946 | See Source »

...Harvard-Yale series, dating back to 1868, is one of the oldest in the country, and regularly consists of three games a season. Oddly enough, the Elis have won 95 out of 187 games but trail in the series, 35 to 32; six have been tied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Traditional Crimson-Eli Diamond Encounter Climaxes 1946 Season | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

...quiet fury, John Rogon set out to recover his father's body. The trail took him through an incredible, criminal maze of official bungling and indifference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Wilderness | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...base of the rocket. With a throbbing roar, the giant main charge took light. A flood of flame submerged the launching platform. Slowly the rocket rose, so slowly and lazily at first that it seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail of smoke behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pushbutton Preview | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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