Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where spiritualism and Townsendism are the chief preoccupations of the inhabitants, a friend of the shades named Ralph G. Pressing announced that he had managed to record at a seance in the Maplewood Hotel a report from Beyond. The spooky commentator was an American Indian named Moon Trail. Dead 300 years, Moon Trail's remarks, as translated by his intermediary, Dr. Horace S. Rambling...
London and the spirit world, and as revealed by Mr. Pressing's recording, proved him a man of culture, if no great originality. Said Moon Trail: "Learning is living. . . . Every soul is a brick in the mosaic of the universe. If one were lost the universe would fall." In pursuit of the psychic chums of Moon Trail, and determined to make more of the loquacious defunct talk, Spiritualist Pressing last September corralled another batch of earnest mediums, went to the Buffalo, N. Y. offices of Transtudio Corp., a commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through...
...Junior Varsity football team hit the victory trail for the first time this year when they defeated the Northwestern Freshmen at Soldiers Field yesterday by a decisive 20-to-6 margin...
This year's schedule proposes four plays instead of the usual two. More emphasis will be placed upon the type of student production which will corner the interest of a student audience. Two of the four plays will attempt to follow in the successful trail blazed by Auden's "Ascent of F-6" last year. The others will delve into the experimental field of drama--new, or little-known works that afford pleasant diversion for both actor and audience...
...twelve years, Pan American Airways Corp. has had a U. S. monopoly on intercontinental air transportation. Its huge Sikorskys, Boeings, Martins and Douglases have flashed through skies clear of competition, except for three or four weaker foreign-owned airlines. An aerial trail blazer, Pan Am has nosed southward into South America; westward to Hawaii, China, Australia, New Zealand; eastward to Europe. With few rivals, Pan Am could take its time pathfinding, make sure its explorations would pay. It has made money since 1931, $1,984,000 last year...