Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that had "never been used by any Chief Executive for the purpose set forth" by Eisenhower-was promptly rebutted by the New York Times's astute Supreme Court Reporter Anthony Lewis, who retorted that not one but two statutes were involved, and that both "trace all the way back to 1792." Undaunted, Lawrence in his next column argued that the 14th Amendment, "allegedly forbidding segregation," was "ratified illegally by the pressure of military force." Thus, concluded Lawrence, "government by bayonet has superseded government by the laws of Congress in supposedly free America...
...platypus in the U.S. outside captivity. The only other platypus in the U.S. remained in captivity, in the very platypusary where Penelope was wont to waddle. He was Cecil, 12, Penelope's intended. With Penelope gone (TIME, Aug. 19), not even the desperate search by a platyposse could trace her; regretfully she was given up for dead...
...favorite diversion of amateur astronomers is to watch the moon eclipsing a star. When the star touches the moon's jagged edge, it winks out all at once with no preliminaries. Even the delicate instruments of professional astronomers cannot detect the slightest trace of dimming or wavering. But if an astronomer on the moon were to watch the earth eclipsing a star, he would see a different performance. The star would grow dim and reddish like the setting sun, and its light would be bent by refraction in the earth's atmosphere, making the star appear to shift...
...Simons saw thunderclouds (cumulonimbus) approaching 68,000 ft., some 25,000 ft. higher than meteorologists had been able to trace them before at his latitude...
...Voss, White's fictional explorer, is clearly drawn from the character of the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, an eccentric, bungling visionary who disappeared with his party in the interior of Australia in 1848. Later, the initial "L" was found carved on many trees, and expeditions vainly sought to trace down tales of a Wild White Man thought to be a survivor of Leichhardt's venture. Seizing on this episode and the surrounding legends, Author White sends Voss and his companions on a rambling journey into disaster. The novel's finely told climax adds up to a masterly...