Word: traced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More suspicious than most were two reporters from the Le Mars semiweekly Globe-Post, who tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend...
First act of the National Unity group was to introduce a bill which, when passed, will permit the President to do away with Parliament, rule by Cabinet decrees. Thus the last trace of Czechoslovak democracy will be wiped out and the nation will become a semi-dictatorial State...
...very danger there was a thrill of reality, and in the vision it offered there lay the reward. For all these the Vagabond was grateful. And he was grateful for Harvard, too, because it fitted in and was fitting him . . . Perhaps he would have the chance someday to trace the steps of some pioneer, doing the job quietly, methodically, the way they taught him at Harvard, Perhaps someday he would even have some hens. Even more than for the present, Vag was grateful for the future...
...offices. With the assistance of the tutorial system, direct contact could be maintained with the problems of the students; the number and length of essays, not their subject, would be the determinant factor, and the graduating class would not longer have to steer clear of every course with a trace of written work attached...
Altogether the game was one long continuation of the good taste left by Harvard's last-minute pay-off against Dartmouth. During the second quarter, with the score 7-7, the good taste was a little too fluffy for mouth comfort, but the third and fourth cantos dispelled all trace of gloom. In the first period it took exactly five minutes for the Crimson to march 75 yards for the first score. On the first play, wingback Torby Macdonald broke through the weak side of the Tiger line for 16 yards, three plays later he romped 30 yards...