Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Home Office, the Board of Trade, the Food Ministry and Treasury were sufficiently alarmed to order more policemen to trail the blacketeers, to impose heavier jail sentences and to circularize magistrates with examples of inadequate penalties. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison was asked whether the Cabinet would consider a bill authorizing the cat (flogging) for serious offenses. Replied Mr. Morrison: "We hope to find some more effective methods . . . than one which, experience has suggested, might be more effective at provoking controversy than deterring crimes...
Spoonerman, fly-by-night vandal whose trail of filched larders has caused considerable breakfast table anguish, added Leverett House to his list of victims yesterday morning. The 500 spoons he carried off were retrieved in a Leverett lavatory by maintenance men at 8 o'clock...
This year, not only will the participants, ski, run, and fall down the Sherburne Trail on Mount Washington Sunday, but they will also follow up the occasion with a giant slalom run by two-men teams tied together with a 40-foot rope...
Open to all University undergraduates with or without experience on skis, the annual Harvard ski race will draw over 40 men to the Sherburne Trail in Pinkham Notch next Sunday morning. Contestants will run the lower part of the Trail, dropping 1,100 feet in a little over a mile, in this informal race which has become a regular event on the Club's program...
...candidate is allowed three trials at each of the three turns, but must complete the slalom course successfully at the first attempt. If he passes the proficiency test and gets a fair clocking in the race on Sherburne Trail, he will be eligible for the "C" rating. This entitles him to enter sanctioned national downhill races...