Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worm-turning spirit spread to a crowd at a nearby station, who joined in the fun of tossing rocks to destroy signboards. When the train began to move again, the rebellious commuters clambered aboard-but at every stopping place they spread revolution and left behind a trail of mob-torn stations...
Lowell continued to ride comfortably along the comeback trail by defeating Company A 37 to 34. Again it was Paul Haskell of the Bellboys who led the scoring parade, with 21 points...
Long, Long Trail. In Asheville, N.C., Technical Sergeant Elmer Akau, who had fought on Guadalcanal and been hospitalized in New Caledonia, found himself "returned" to an Army redistribution center. Happy but baffled, he announced that he had never been so far from his Honolulu home...
...through the entire Hudson River Valley, straying over into the Catskills, the White Mountains and New England to set up their easels. For the next half-century, they turned out careful, literal landscapes that were generally large, declamatory, vaguely religious, blatantly sentimental. All these earnest pioneers who blazed the trail for Inness, Homer and Eakins of the '70s were loosely lumped together and called the "Hudson River School." The Chicago show spotlighted the lives and works of a few of the school's Old Masters...
...build up its mail-order business in the adobe villages of the plains and the distant mountain and jungle towns, Sears salesmen will probably follow the trail blazed by sellers of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. (N.J.). In many of the remote huts of farmers who still labor with oxen and wooden plows are ancient Singers now passed from mother to daughter as a family heirloom. With such people as these Sears men will leave their revered catalogue, an artifact they hope will come to mean as much in Mexico as it does in the rural...