Word: traced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apologies made by these knights come as a thrilling dramatic contrast. They are delivered to a modern British audience in hackneyed modern idiom, with no trace of poetry. One speaker dwells upon their disinterestdness; another, on the constitutional necessity of subordinating Church to State; and a third, the theory that Becket virtually committed suicide while in unsound mind. They are meant to sound superficial, but none of them speaks nonsense, and hence the enigmatical complexity of the play is increased...
Three large, typewritten folios, produced officially by the College of Arms, now trace the new viscount back to William Morrice of Swarford who in 1278 held land in Swarford in the manor of Hooknorton. "Not a quarter of i% of the population," commented the Sunday Express, "can trace their ancestry back this...
...various arrangements of his hands on the mouthpieces. Air is furnished by a bellows which he operates with his foot. Although he designed it to show, by crude but effective imitation, the crudity of human speech, some U. S. listeners thought they could detect in its manual utterances a trace of British accent...
...ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless, while the actress and her Red put on skis, started down a steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering darkness. Japanese frontier patrols, summoned by the driver, found no trace of the ski-elopers, said they had apparently made for a Soviet frontier post about a mile from the spot where they started their slide...
...very expensive but the synthetic manufacture is cheap. Merck & Co. markets the vitamin in one-gram, one-tenth-gram and one-hundredth-gram tablets but does not advertise to the public and sells only to the medical profession. Last week Dr. Jolliffe suggested that liquor makers might put a trace of the vitamin in their products before distributing them, by dissolving a half-milli-gram or so per pint. The cost to the liquor people would not be more than ½? a bottle. Or drinkers might buy their own Vitamin B, put it in their highballs or take it separately...