Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another expedition Frémont saw the Oregon Trail as busy as a barnyard in mating season, crossed the snow-deep Sierras in midwinter, visited Captain Suiter's fort in the fertile Sacramento valley. Ideas of manifest destiny were firmly planted in Frémont's head. So, on his next trip to California, he began to write history instead of geography. Mexican General Castro ordered him out of California. He went up to Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled...
...Success of The Chisolm Trail" said Leatherbee, "has led us to select a series of American dramas that should delight a number of the undergraduates. First on our list comes The Lynching of Jesse James by Myrtle Mull into which we are now planning to introduce our motorcycle Agnes Dinwitte's foaming drama The Johnstown Flood is next on the list it is especially suitable for the H. D. C. in as much as it is based on the old ballad Lips that Touch Liquor shall Never touch Mine...
Miller thundered down the 40-yard trail in four and three-fifths seconds, breaking another record, and Captain Bowen of Cornell lengthened the record distance in both the weight events...
...Runners Trail in Classic...
...bundled with the necessary changes of linen into a gargantuan rocket, the contention that so many foreign bodies in space might disrupt the delicately balanced celestial system, must be treated with gravity. Perhaps it is best that Professor Condit should first blaze the trail. Even if others may not immediately follow, it is entirely possible that he may, first Lindbergh like, improve American Venereal relations beyond the wildest claims of companionate marriage...