Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...
...traits the judges sought were hunting ability (eagerness to pick up the trail); trailing, once the scent had been found; speed, drive and endurance which sometimes call for a hound to cover 35 miles in a five-hour test. By the third day of the meeting the judges had eliminated all but 100 hounds. Of these, two hounds seemed head & shoulders above the pack: Meggs White Girl, owned by Farmer J. W. Meggs of Marshville, N.C., and Dr. Luke, owned by Farmer R. B. Murphy of Bahama...
...Correspondent ("Thank you, Mr. President") Smith quit kicking dust over his trail. As TIME said, Smith's agreement was with his two (A.P. and I.N.S.) wire service competitors; for them there was only one pool, only one circuit...
...Bill for Boston. U.S. composers in particular have a lot to thank Copland for. In a way, homely, friendly Aaron Copland blazed the trail for them...
...cent to a serious native composer for the privilege of performing his music; it was supposed to be gratification enough for an American to get his work played at all. With the help of Serge Koussevitzky, then conducting his first season with the Boston Symphony, Copland blazed that trail too. "Send them a bill!" commanded Koussevitzky after a rehearsal of the young composer's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. Copland sent the symphony society a modest bill ("maybe $25, I've forgotten"), and was paid. When Copland told old,time U.S. Composer Henry F. Gilbert about his check...