Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Attempts to secure photographs of the metros met with little success, for, although a large portion of the sky was covered, the trail of but one Leonid was found on the plates. As a certain meteor seen shortly before 3 o'clock does not appear on the plates exposed at that time, it is at present believed possible to photography only meteors slowly moving, or of exceptional brilliancy...
...author and illustrator, among other books, of: "An Art Anatomy of Animals," 1896; "Wild Animals I Have Known," 1898; "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," 1899; "The Biography of a Grizzly," 1900; "Lives of the Hunted," 1901; "Krag the Kootenai Ram," and "Two Little Savages...
Century--"The Heavy Mists Trail Low upon the Sea," by M. J. Savage...
...appearance, the showing on the whole was very fair. The practice for pitchers and catchers was very light, in order that the men might not strain their arms by throwing too hard at first. Later in the afternoon the other candidates for the University team were given a short trail. The men at first tossed the ball lightly back and forth, and then were given practice in stopping grounders...
...Leonids have now been thoroughly examined and classified. About a hundred photographs were taken, and, considering the size of the shower, which numbered only about four hundred and fifty Leonids in all, the number of successful photographs was remarkably large. On each of two plates there were three trails and a single distinct trail was found on each of twelve others. It will now be possible to locate the radiant from which the Leonids proceed, by tracing back the trails photographed on the plates and determining the point at which they intersect...