Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student in Professor Stewart's party, observing from a plane at 9,000 feet, noticed an effect never seen before: a 15-mile-wide trail of condensed water vapor in the moon's shadow, apparently resulting from the sudden cooling of the earth's atmosphere. In England, physicists used radar to observe stratospheric electrical effects...
...many more things than enemy flags are dumped on our desks to mark the trail TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men have followed across the newsfronts of this war - Japanese cigarets and German underwear-ashtrays made from the melted-down metal of Nazi planes which crashed and burned on the ground - Japanese sabers and German commando dirks...
...Month (now Bowker Book Guides), and by her own Publishers' Weekly, Associate Editor Alice Payne Hackett has compiled a record of U.S. literary taste from 1895 to the present. Titles like Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. (1899), John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant not a British statesman but a U.S. author (no kin) whose historical...
...Better Meals for Less Money, designed for shortage-harried housewives, brought Author Green considerably more money. But by the end of 1918 the U.S. public had tired of both war and "hooverizing" and was hungrily gulping the cactus and sage-scented paragraphs of Zane Grey's The U.P. Trail...
They rounded a bend, started up a concrete path and saw a pair of 20-mm. Jap guns aimed down the trail. Charlie got them with a squirrel-hunter's "bark" shot, hitting the rock wall beside the guns and splattering them with shell and rock fragments. Next he blasted open the heavy steel doors of a Jap tunnel and set off a store of enemy ammunition...