Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campbell stayed quiet long enough to stake 30 claims. Another prospector, Norbert Miller of Toronto, saw him staking, guessed what was up. As the word spread along what prospectors call "the moccasin trail," the rush started. In no time 500 claims had been staked around Campbell's. When Campbell's ore samples showed a 60% content of radioactive mineral and 99% of it uranium (10% is considered pay dirt), the boom went skyhigh...
...South Bend, an unbelieving crowd of 59,305 saw mighty Notre Dame trail Northwestern into the last period, 7-6. This, too, looked for a time like the upset of the year. Then by sheer power, the Irish hacked and hammered at Northwestern's sturdy line, and finally managed to walk off field with their 20th straight victory since Nov. 9, 1946. The game ended with Notre Dame ahead, 12-7; it was Northwestern's last game with Notre Dame-at least for a while...
...River. Howard Hawks delivers 10,000 cattle to Kansas-and a rattling good movie about the first drive along the Chisholm Trail, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...
...doubting Bloomsbury Hamlet had grown to a reduced Dante. He had also become (with Yeats dead) the greatest living poet. Last week the Swedish Academy clothed T. S. Eliot with recognition of that fact by awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his remarkable efforts as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry...
...River. Howard Hawks delivers 10,000 cattle to Kansas-and a rattling good movie about the first drive along the Chisholm Trail; with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...