Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite. Harvard the second choice. The race is figured to be between these two with an upset recorded if either Tech or Syracuse comes through. In the junior race Harvard has a great chance but all around if looks like close finishes with no disgrace for those who trail the first boat in this race of great evens...
...known periodicals from home. We knew not the object of their visit, but felt it must be one of importance to Chile, and we so talked to our Chilean friends and associates. Our humiliation and disgrace was complete. . . . Their insults and . . . actions in and about their hotel leaves a trail impossible to eradicate. God help us if American newspaper men number many in this class. . . . British, French, Italian and German representatives act quite in the opposite manner, and these are the people with whom we are competing for Chilean business...
...modernized Oedipus might involve psychoanalysts and Freudian complexes but Stravinsky's Oedipus follows no such obvious trend. He wrote it when he was tired, perhaps incapable of cutting a trail any further into the forest of such untried dissonances and rhythms as he used in Le Sacre du Printemps. He had long dis carded the skirling imagery of Petrushka and The Firebird. When he wrote Oedipus he was deep in a desire to return to the classicists, anxious perhaps to begin all over again, to see where a new trail would take him. He chose an old, formal pattern fundamentally...
Maintaining a passive silence, Killer Burke gave no clue as to his activities during the past 18 months, refused to disclose his trail from St. Joe, Mich, to St. Joe, Mo. But his automobile was purchased last fortnight in Chicago from a salesroom next door to Ralph ("Bottles") Capone's Cotton Club...
...Senate lashed the Attorney General out of office while its investigators were following the trail of his gang's graft to the doors of Brother Mal's Ohio bank. Asked for his ledgers to trace the deposits inside, Brother Mal said he had burned them up. Long afterward the Supreme Court of the U. S. in a famed decision said his behavior was wrong and ordered him to tell the Senate all he knew about the Ohio Gang's fiscal affairs. But the Senate had ceased to care, never asked any more questions, let Brother Mal continue...