Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trail Blazer. In Denver, the Public Utilities Commission goggled at an application from a man in Idaho for permission to operate airlines over all routes in all directions at all times...
...Gould-Richardson simplification approaches Tibetan along a new trail familiar to children who have played with codes. It breaks down the study of the language into syllables and corresponding numbers. Using both, the student can put together words (lam means road, lam-chak means railroad, lam-yik means passport) and can link up written forms with phonetic values. Handy Tibetan phrases...
Bull Bill Jeffers snorted: "So what? . . . Experts of the Army, the industry and my office disagree. I'll trail along with them...
More & more, in Stewart's opinion, newspapers are striving not merely to present unrelated facts to their readers but also to draw the line between good & evil. Stewart's examples of this trend: the rise of the trail-blazing newspaper columnists, who "helped the reader get his own bearings"; the birth of PM, dedicated to opinionated reporting. And even the Times, Stewart points out, "would not now pretend to be neutral about the Nazis...
...county seat where the Hauptmann trial was held. On personal property of $45,000,000, Standard paid a tax of $301,500. This lump sent Flemington's tax rate of $3.91 per $100 parachuting to 67?. Since then, 135 equally tax-conscious corporations have followed Standard's trail, adding a total of $200,000,000 to Flemington's intangible tax rolls...