Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month (TIME, Feb. 29), Woodsmen Blanchard and Turner did not stop to inquire. They fled through the woods and reported to the State police at Long Lake. A lieutenant with four of his men and two forest wardens, accompanied by the trappers, set out on the giant's trail. Shutters and doors in Essex and Hamilton counties clapped apprehensively shut while the chase went forward.* After a 72-hour search, the pursuers sighted a huge, dark figure silhouetted against the snow, a man without snowshoes making incredible speed through the deep, stubborn drifts. It was their man. He came...
...Bernard, a fiendish old pervert in love with Joan is following them. Lady Luck further sets the stage when Doug's pal finds a check and draws out an innocent-looking violin case which is full of counterfeit money. With both Dr. Bernard and the counterfeiters on his trail Doug displays his acrobatic inheritance to good advantage in a thrilling dash through and above a switch yard of moving trains. Complications ensue when Joan is arrested for passing some of the bogus cash and the alcoholic pal walks off with the evidence; but the tangle unwinds somehow and everyone...
...caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow ledges, over slippery boulders. The snow was waist-deep, the cold bitter. On one trail a ledge gave...
...congratulate himself for his tactical manoeuvre in a most embarrassing situation. Even if his proposal is voted down, as it is almost sure to be, he will have little reason to regret his step. Mr. Garner will be forced to retreat with his abortive gesture; officeholders will continue to trail the Hoover band-wagon; a watchful public will be satisfied...
...trip across the Andes and down the Amazon is excessive: rather it is trading upon the glamour of the tropics for the uninitiated. I'll guarantee the same trip and conditions for less than half of thai: I happen to live right on the trail...