Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the typhoon had spent itself after six hours there was left behind a trail of fires and cholera. At week's end, British officials were still trying to assess casualties and damages, despondently gave out that at least 600 lives had been lost, that the typhoon had cost about 1,000,000 Hong Kong dollars...
...hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*-Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific. Amundsen's icebound trail, full of shallows, swirling currents and subject to sudden storms has since been followed by only three or four ships...
...task of making Jessie Matthews as popular in the U. S. as she is in England. A slavish imitation of the current Hollywood musical comedy formula, Gangway sometimes comes close to clicking, gives one more indication that British cinema can as yet boast few native screen writers within trailing distance of Hollywood's best, but that British producers are still trying to pick up the trail...
...judge by the writings of travelers, philosophers, novelists and the like, most foreigners in China are on the trail of something almost as visionary as the philosopher's stone. But in fact what entices most foreigners to China is the vision of doing business with China's 400,000,000 potential customers. For the past 25 years head of a Shanghai advertising agency, Carl Crow now reveals in 400 Million Customers where he got to while following that vision. An unpretentious, anecdotal account, it is pleasant reading because it deals with a novel part of the Chinese scene...
...Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months in prison before going back to the sea. Seaman Holmes's story, radically transformed by the crack team of Scenarist Grover Jones & Director Henry Hathaway (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine) and magnificently photographed by Academy Award Winner Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms), makes a notable adventure picture...