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Word: trailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...River is a yarn about the first cattle drive over the Chisholm Trail, from deep Texas into Abilene, Kans., soon after the Civil War. It is also the story of the fierce character duel which develops, along the way, between the tyrannical boss cattleman (John Wayne) and his intransigent foster son (Montgomery Clift). Mr. Clift takes time out for a little romance with a "dancing girl"*(Joanne Dru), but essentially this is a movie about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Several hundred cubic yards of dirt have appeared in the middle of the Charles River trail up where they're building a now bridge. Last Friday's University handicap looks like the last bit of practice that will be done on that course this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners Challenge Holy Cross, Tufts For Season's Opener This Afternoon | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

...September hurricane moaned in from Cuba, slammed huge seas against the Miami shore, and buzz-sawed on across Florida, killing five people and leaving a $25 million trail of damaged property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Trail. In his pursuit of Traven, Spota had got almost nowhere until last year. Then, during the filming of Treasure, Director John Huston was confronted one day by a little grey man who called himself Hal Croves. He was Traven's secretary, he said, come in response to Huston's call for advice from the author. Huston guessed that Croves was Traven himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Secret of El Gringo | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...like Julius Caesar, and behaved like him whenever possible. When guests were, in the house, breakfasting on the terrace, she appeared above, them, framed in the bathroom window, and lectured them for an hour or so, "as impressive as Mussolini addressing his massed followers." Her favorite song was The Trail of the Lonesome Pine; but she was nearly as devoted to a radio commercial, "Yo ho yo ho yo ho yo ho, we are the makers of Wonder Bread." Cryptograms fascinated her too; she could never have enough of her favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Makers of Wonder Bread | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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