Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since the war, however, we have returned to the three inch gun. The split-trail feature is now being used and we have increased the range of the gun by increasing the muzzle velocity and the weight of the carriage...
...whom Hearst papers are usually anathema, the active part taken by these journals (in Manhattan) in running down bucketshops has been very generally commended. With most New York papers, the bucketshops (TIME, June 18) furnished merely a nine days' wonder. But the Hearst papers refused to abandon the trail-they forced public officials to take action on several occasions, were fearless in revealing the curious political alliances which some of the most notorious bucketshops (especially E. M. Fuller & Co.) possessed. If any single papers deserve public recognition for compelling the exposure and punishment of security swindling, the New York...
...probable to go through the season without injury. Grew was on crutches during the important game last season and Dunker was well used up before the season closed. Either may be out before the Tiger and Bulldog encounters. Kernan is more than ordinarily brittle and injury may dog his trail at any time. The problem arises as to who shall fill their places in even of casualties. Could Davenport and Littlefield flanked by Hobson and R. S. Hubbard be substituted in the center of the line and still preserve its present strength...
...rest of the story is devoted to that wild adventure, the trek of Del Sol?cattle, men, horses, rifles, six-shooters, across uncharted plains to Abilene, on the trail of the North Star, The difficulties include Indians, stampedes, storms, the fording of rivers believed impossible to ford and, throughout, the complications of an ingeniously villainous plot. A trunk full of land-scrip proves a bone of contention and Taisie's own attractions very nearly wreck things at various times?for far too many people are anxious to marry her. The actions of McMasters often seem very strange?...
...Author. Emerson Hough, whose Oregon Trail novel, The Covered Wagon, was cinematized to great advantage this year, died in Chicago three months ago (TIME, May 5) aged 66. He was born in Newton, of pioneer parentage. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began his career as a lawyer in White Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include...