Word: traced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warmly, without a trace of sour grapes or jealousy, Grocer Habsburg goes on to praise the self made Tea Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most...
...Announced last week was the first endowment of journalistic lectures among the older Eastern private schools. Publisher Paul Block of the Brooklyn Standard Union* gave Yale $100,000 with which to employ a lecturer or lecturers to "establish a program of studies in the graduate and undergraduate schools to trace the relation of the newspaper Press to modern affairs. This plan does not contemplate the development of courses of a vocational nature, but it is expected to bring the students . . . to a clearer understanding of the role of the Press in the complex social and political life of the modern...
...resigned as chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank to go to Basle was elected last week President and Board Chairman of the B. I. S. As his large, well-knit body eased into the chairman's place, Mr. McGarrah cleared his throat and, with a trace of Scotch burr, sonorously announced as the first item of business that his alternate and technical advisor will be Mr. Leon Fraser, the "continuing expert" who was chief U. S. legal advisor to young Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert. Aside from the routine of getting settled at Basle last week...
...this story of the vague distances of our national history Miss Roberts has chosen to sing of those hardy men and women who fought their way arduously over Boone's trace into the promised land of Kentuck to found the beginnings of our great western empire...
...most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used it for their battle ground. They resented the foreigner's intrussion, doing all in their power to hinder the building of the new forts...