Word: traced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writes about all the familiar plagues and problems of the body-from catching cold to cancer; nor is there any trace of sickroom smirk nor of professional "strut in the way he does it. His style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy...
...trace the transference of fear from one object to another, a rabbit was given a child and at the same time an iron bar was banged against a piece of metal. This was repeated. The child confused the noise, which he feared, with the rabbit, made the same response to both. This process of association was also used to effect cures. One baby, long under observation, was afraid of fur or anything resembling fur. The cure consisted in bringing animals into his presence while he ate., A lump of sugar was given to him and an animal brought close...
...trace of Matteotti could be found...
Zane Grey has a faint trace of Indian blood in his veins. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio. His father was a hunter, a farmer, a backwoodsman, who later became a doctor. Mr. Grey was educated at high school in his home town and at the University of Pennsylvania. For a time he was a professional baseball player. He gave it up for fishing, traveling, hunting. He began writing articles concerning his experiences, then turned to fiction with huge success...
...Lopez (above-mentioned) digressed to trace the history of the word jazz. Said...