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Word: trailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night Earl Durand stole down to the corpses, smashed their rifles, took rubber-soled boots from one, bootlaces from the other. He made a false trail up the precipice behind his boulders, then doubled back. Next day when the posse closed in on his fortress, he was not there. While they tried to trail him with bloodhounds on the mountain, while militia dragged up a howitzer, Earl Durand held up a car down on the valley road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beloved Enemy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...burned area included 154,000 acres of rich muck and peatlands which nature was centuries in laying down and which expensive drainage systems were installed to make arable. Down through the sawgrass and palmetto flats of the Everglades the flames had roared. On both sides of the famed Tamiami Trail across the peninsula, the fire still burned. About 3,000,000 more acres were threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Spring Fires | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Graduation will take an unusually heavy toll this spring with nine Varsity regulars and quite a few capable reserves hitting the diploma trail, leaving Coach Harlow in the position of head repairman of Harvard football. As a result, the spring practice sessions, which will continue until about May 1, will be increasingly important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomores, Juniors Report to Harlow for Spring Football Today | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

Seven ski teams, including the Crimson contingent led by Captain Bill Hinton, will compete on the Bear Mountain trail at Bartlett on Sunday in the third annual Schussverein downhill race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Conditions Ideal; Skiers Will Compete in Bear Mountain Event | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...Nancy Drew--Reporter," the second feature on the program, tells a tedious tale of two ruddy-checked, adventure-seeking adolescents hot on the trail of two vicious murderers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

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