Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Till Hell Won't Have It." Hogan knows every foot of Riviera's 7,000-yd. course. Two years running he has won the Los Angeles Open there. And there last June, leaving a hare & hounds trail of half-smoked cigarettes in his wake, he won his greatest triumph thus far-the U.S. Open championship. He played Riviera as if he owned it; the caddies called it Hogan's Alley...
Detective Captain Patrick Ready was not on the trail of the near-naked sex offender who disappeared down Appleton st. last night...
Some very good poetry was written in 1948, most of it by the older and established writers. No bright young poet blazed a sensational new trail-not even as narrow and hard to follow as the one Robert Lowell blazed...
...minister and grandson of a wealthy merchant, Francis Parkman set out with his rifle as soon as he graduated from Harvard in 1844, tramping over the trails that the French and Indians had followed when they invaded western Massachusetts. Two years later, when he was 22, he rode by horseback over part of the Oregon Trail, south through the Rockies, and home over the Santa Fe Trail...
...Indians at first hand, his health gave way. He overtaxed his heart, his eyesight failed, and he became too crippled with arthritis to sit on a horse. He wrote a novel-the sort of book, said Van Wyck Brooks, read only by friends of the author -and The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, but the great epic of exploration and conquest that he visualized was not even begun...