Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retired, whose best service to the American Navy was his retirement from it. I would suggest that when he is done shooting off the only weapon he is expert at--his mouth--he be escorted to the Cunard or White Star dock and given an opportunity to follow the trail and example of his ante-type, Benedict Arnold...
...course "The Trail of Conflict" does not go back to the West of wild Indians and promiscuous shooting. It is a story told of life on a ranch today. But there is still enough opportunity for bad men it seems, to make that life interesting and not without thrills. Mrs. Loring has made the most of that opportunity, and avoiding the conventionalities of most novels of the West, has told her story originally and with effect. The fact that she considers that if she has told a story well she can let psychology and realism go is not the least...
...Crimson cohorts were superior in every department of the game, the base-running of the journalists being specially brilliant. Time and again the daily's men charged through the lines of Ibis, fighting off tacklers every inch of the way, and finally reaching second or third base leaving a trail of fallen punsters behind...
...usual, most of our knowledge must come from the secret archives of the university; but the manner in which we first got on the trail of the Qua Quan Quot was peculiar, not to say gruesome. I was digging on the edge of the eliff overlooking the Urubamba Canyon when my pick struck on a rock that rang hollow. By careful investigation, I finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped...
...winter track season this year could hardly be classed as a complete success inasmuch as the University was forced to trail behind Cornell in the triangular meet on February 25, and to content itself with seventh place in the intercollegiate meet at New York. The relay teams, too, had a mediocre season, but the work of one or two individuals such s Brown and Burke gave the Crimson some consolation for the failure to win all the intercollegiate contests...