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Word: trails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first", continued Mikkola, "way back in 1917 when he was only 20 years old, and it was much colder than today, even", he continued. "We have no board tracks, no indoor running in Finland and poor Nurmi was racing over a trail packed with snow. Of course, usually we do not run at all during the long winter, and Nurmi always walked 20 to 30 kilometers every day to keep in training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkola Makes Light of Share in Developing Paavo Nurmi--First Knew Great Finnish Runner as a Novice | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

This prediction is in no way a cry of "sour Grapes" over last week's tidal wave. It is no disparagement of Princeton's undoubted power. If the Tigers play as they did in the Stadium, Yale cannot hope to prevail, but must trail by a two-touchdown margin at least. The chances are, however, in the light of past football history, that the Jungaleers reached their peak last Saturday and cannot maintain the breakneck pace they set in the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY VERDICTS ARE IN DOUBT THIS AFTERNOON | 11/15/1924 | See Source »

Candidate LaFollette followed a serpentine trail from Maryland through New York to Boston, to Pittsburgh, to Cleveland, attacking in turn the sugar trust, J. P. Morgan, the Standard Oil, the water power trust, "American Imperialism," Mellon Aluminum Interests?and ceased to be a candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alarums & Excursions | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...into the administrative chambers of your executive departments . . . Where can there be found such a chapter of shame in American history as that which contains the names of Fall, Edwin Denby, Harry M. Daugherty, Charles R. Forbes, Gaston B. Means, and a host of jackals who followed in their trail?" At Milwaukee, Charles G. Dawes went to the lair of LaFollettism to attack, not 'because the Republicans hope for success there, but rather because of the compelling interest which comes to those who attack the lion in his den. He declared that the LaFollette plank, which would permit Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Words | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...Rockies, therefore, were impassable; they felt obliged to skirt them. The route was changed. Leaving Chicago, they were scheduled to fly, not by way of Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, but to veer south, with Omaha, Dallas and Tucson as their main stopping places on the sky trail to California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Magellans | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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