Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry, which helped pioneer the new science of isotopes, will save about $225 million this year by using isotopes in a dozen ways. Refineries employ them to trace the flow of catalysts through craeking plants, Isotopes serve as tireless sentinels to warn of hidden leaks in pipes, as sensitive controls to separate oil from gasoline in pipelines. Oilmen merely insert a shot of an isotope after each batch is pumped in; when the radioactive cocktail reaches interchange points, the isotope automatically activates valves that shunt the crude and the gasoline in proper directions...
...Dmitry Shostakovich, 51, is one of the 20th century's most gifted composers, but that has not kept Soviet politicians from pounding him like a bass drum. In the '30s and '40s Communist officials let him have it fortissimo for writing music that failed to trace a melodic line straight to the heart of the average Russian. Composer Shostakovich has long since recanted his sins and been allowed once again to sing for his supper. The song he sang last week, his brand-new Eleventh Symphony, was supposed to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Russian...
What the excavators found was a looted grave, so despoiled (probably by the Saracens in 846) that much of it was a featureless hole. There was no trace of the bronze casket in which tradition said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures...
...slyly camouflages the fact that there is as much truth as spoof in his pseudo-scientifically stated findings. Finally, he is as difficult to laugh off as he is easy to laugh with. Author Parkinson promises to make further researches into executive manners. One project: he would like to trace the significance of "the illegibility of signatures, the attempt being made to fix the point in a successful executive career at which the handwriting becomes meaningless even to the executive himself...
...late last night, no trace of either the thugs or the car had been found...