Word: traced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps you are tired of our friendship . . . Oh, Vanechka! Apparently you have fallen in love with someone else, and she prohibits your continuation of our comradely correspondence. In that case, I can tell you only one thing-real comrades shouldn't act that way. If there is any trace of the old feeling . . . then write...
...story, a glorified opera for horses, which no one in his right mind would grace with the name plot, is labyrinthine in its complexity. It concerns a hard-bitten young army officer who travels west under sealed orders to trace a pair of murders. He can never quite put his finger on the killers, so he shoots a dozen extras just to make sure. Sandwiched in between the first and the last shot are a vicious flat fight, a barn-burning, and the seduction of a bosomy young woman at the almost incredible range of thirty feet. There is also...
Failure to keep such samples in the past made it impossible to trace exactly who was responsible for the weekend's epidemic...
Sweet & Young. To her practiced eye, the debutante party is a poor pitch. The boys from Harvard, Yale and Princeton who throng the stag line and trace the source of champagne and Scotch to the pantry with the single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is looking for. Said Joanne: "I don't really like college boys. I know what they are going to say and how they think. They're so silly, and don't know how to drink." Some of the college boys seemed to share her indifference. Said a Yale...
Other kinds of soil can be improved, some easily, others not. Sometimes all that a "sterile" soil needs is a trifle of boron or manganese. Such "trace elements" can make all the difference between big crops and failure...