Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main part of the shower will be over, and only faint signs of it will be seen next year. A special feature of the Leonids is what is known as a "fire-ball," but is in reality simply a large meteer, which frequently leaves a long and sometimes colored trail...
...planets under the Zodiacal high-sign of Virgo. Such a nicety of balance exists that, though celestial bodies remain undisturbed in their several classrooms, yet an isolated meteorite may drop into Dunster House of a Sunday afternoon, and now and then a Radcliffe shooting star leaves its trail in the night...
...course this meant that more competitions in skiing were revived and initiated. For one thing Cabin and Trail, consisting of about sixty-five men who govern the Outing Club, journey eight miles out to Moose Cabin, stayed overnight and then raced back to the campus next morning in a traditional event that had been dropped along with several other fading traditions which have lost importance in this blase collegiate...
...quickly sensed by European visitors, that tolerates an incongrous mixing of the practical and the aesthetic. As early as the eighteenth century, Samuel Sewall's diary records as a matter of course that Sewall's family, on an outing, sang psalms and played games by turns. Indeed, this same trail, together with a good proportion of well-varnished dishonesty, is responsible for the present pitiful condition of American advertising...
...upward one sunny afternoon last week as the airship Los Angeles, convoyed by a half-dozen planes, poked her way across mid-Manhattan. Presently the biggest of the planes began to fly in a mile-circle around the dirigible, spewing a lengthening white plume of vapor behind her. The trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower...