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Word: trailed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Ralph Richards was set upon the trail of several of his former companions in crime. Foolish policemen were satisfied when Ralph Richards promised to bring his cronies to an appointed meeting place for arrest. The police unleashed their captive and waited at the rendezvous, but Ralph Richards failed to make good his promise. Policemen did not know whether he had absconded alone, rejoined his "gang" or been murdered for treachery, by its members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Stepping up" his movie machine, he has taken reels of the reeling helium atoms; his picture gallery now consists of 100,000 photographs showing the tracks of about 1,000,000 atoms. The atomic trail is infinitesimal, a narrow path (usually straight but sometimes bent as though the atom had trespassed too close to some minute object which had repelled it) made of the same water vapor that forms the clouds. Occasionally some dizzily dashing helium atom hurtling through the hundreds of thousands of normal atomic citizens in the air crashes kerplunk into the nucleus of one of them. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms, Drugs, Wines | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...undoubtedly have a marked effect in awakening the competitive spirit of ranking scholars, but the honor of representing dear old Harvard or Yale on the literature team can hardly have the same appeal as being on the football squad. We have debating teams, yet they have somehow failed to trail the clouds of glory attached to athletics. It is disconcerting to have the issue confused by a material reward which represents a form of commercialization not quite in keeping with the amateur spirit so zealously preserved in other intercollegiate contests. --New York Evening Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

SPECTACULAR The Trail of '98 (Dolores Del Rio), Wings (Clara Bow and Charles Rogers), The Last Command (Emil Jannings), The Drums of Love (Lionel Barrymore and Mary Philbin), Simba (animals clicked in Africa by the Martin Johnsons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinemasterpieces | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Edna May Wilbur, schoolteacher, daughter of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, was taking a hike with a girl companion in Yosemite Valley, California. They were having a good time, throwing snowballs and leaping down a rocky trail, until they found themselves on a ledge from which it was impossible to descend and dangerous to retrace their trail up the valley. It was midnight before a party of five rangers came to their rescue, hauled them up 100 feet with ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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