Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unknown origin . . . incidental to the discharge of fuel." What caused the fire? A few theorists jumped to the "static spark" conclusion advanced as a cause of the Hindenburg's explosion last year at Lakehurst. But most experts accepted a simpler explanation-that flame or sparks, which sometimes trail out 40 ft. behind Clipper exhaust pipes, ignited gasoline vaporizing from the plane's dump valves a dozen feet below...
...Connecticut and will publish its first big highway tour, U. S. 1, tracing the 2,000-mile road mile by mile, landmark by landmark, from Calais, Me. to Key West, Fla. Some time in the spring the Project will release Whaling Masters in Massachusetts, U. S. 30-The Oregon Trail, The Ocean Highway. Also scheduled are State guides that are to be brought out as they are completed until every State, Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Virgin Islands have been mapped, toured and described...
...dismantled plant, immediately recalled that, two weeks before, the stonecutting firm of T. C. Diener Co. had also reported that their closed plant, consisting of four buildings full of machinery, had been completely razed. Investigation disclosed that both jobs had been done by a crew of Negro workmen. A trail of canceled checks soon led to their employer, hulking 225-lb. Edward Rockwood...
...paused here to say that many men from conservative backgrounds follow the well-blazed trail from Exeter to Harvard, or Andover to Yale, and leave college with very little to write about. "You have to undergo powerful emotional and physical experiences before you can write effectively...
...team will have its first practice session at Lake Placid from December 26 to January 1 and will enter the Lake Placid meet scheduled for December 30. After this date meets follow one another in swift succession. The annual Harvard Race will be held on the Sherburne Trail, Pinkham Notch, on January 9 and will be an open race for all undergraduate members of the University...