Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's campaign for a lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, and study the famous afterglow of Central Illinois, the benediction...
...19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses. Hence he predicts: "If we do not have better fortune or manage better in the future than we have managed in the past, the recent spurt in wages will trail off, and after a time give way to a slow relapse, later to be followed by fresh advance...
After the hostile attitude taken by many leaders of public opinion and the spreading of much adverse criticism it is notable to find the Experimental College still planning, to go on with its trail blazing. "The methods and principles of this school have little in common with the recent trend in academic style at Harvard, save in the significant common leaning towards more personal contact between the teacher and student. It is this characteristic that marks both the Experimental College and the Harvard House Plan. Unlike Harvard, Wisconsin is not rushing with its experiment into any vast program of change...
Pilots flying the night mail through fog and rain that blanket all ground lights, follow a trail of dots and dashes which flow from radio range-beacons into their earphones. But sounds are sometimes deceiving, subject to radio interference. Skill is required to compare the relative strength of opposing signals. And at 15-minute intervals the guiding stream of signals are interrupted completely for broadcast weather reports...
Divorced. George Sunday, son of Evangelist William ("Hit-the-Sawdust-Trail") Sunday; by Mrs. Harriet May Sunday. Uncontested charges: he drank excessively, hit her, associated with other women...