Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...
...essential then that undergraduates be given a hearing upon the question of the house-plan at Harvard. If we succeed in making ourselves articulate, there may be a little we can tell our pedagogues. Upon Harvard has devolved the privilege and responsibility of blazing a trail; and every university in America awaits reports with eagerness. For there are many intensely serious problems that present themselves. How, for instance, will the men be selected to occupy the various small social units? The purpose of the plan being avowedly a social improvement over the present conditions, will this end be better attained...
...slaved at loading kegs of oil and casks of wine onto tramp-ships, signed on as a sailor, outsmarted many another, and presently owned his own wallowing, chugging tramp steamer. His escalator to Monte Carlo is darkly whispered to have been the white slaving slums of Marseilles. If that trail exists it has been well covered, nay, completely effaced. The smart world will remember "The Greek" solely in his sleek role of banker at Deauville or Cannes...
...small college. The avowal lies in the announcement of the "House Plan" which has as its purpose the splitting up of the undergraduate body, with the exception of the Freshmen, into a number of small social groups or "houses." Harvard realizes the fact that large institutions of our country trail far behind the smaller ones in their ability to stimulate social contact and "college spirit" in its full meaning. The project now under way calls for an expenditure of $13,000,000, the gift of Edward S. Harkness of New York City, to take the form of a group...
...driving for the Taylor-Mason kennels at Tamworth, N. H., of which the other member is Mosely Taylor, President of the New England Sled Dog Club, an amateur who since 1921 has helped finance races. Fourth was Mrs. E. P. Ricker, of Poland Spring, Me., who had to break trail on the second...