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Word: traced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good--this is expected--but that everyone in both choruses as well seems perfectly at ease on the stage and participates in the staccato by-play so central to this type of comedy. Both men's and women's choruses were superb musically and movement-wise with no trace of awkwardness...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Patience | 4/26/1957 | See Source »

...sunlight and made to broadcast on characteristic wave lengths. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has turned its 50-ft. radio disk on the comet in the hope of detecting waves from hydroxl (OH) radicals. If astronomers find this odd stuff in comets, they may be able to trace it back into interstellar space. This may lead them, in turn, to new knowledge about what the universe is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Comet Coming | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Parasitologists do not agree on whether a tapeworm is a single individual or a family tree of ancestors and descendants. The head has the only brains (a trace of nerve tissue), but the segments are practically independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Persistent Parasites | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...sure as Brewster could remember was not sure enough. The committee investigators had been able to trace from beginning to end only one check attributed by Local 174 to its "Special Fund." That check, for $4,000, was signed by Frank Brewster and had been cashed as a part down payment on his Palm Springs house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cash on the Whang Bang | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Open to the Birds. Modern experts have long suspected that the description of the gold-decked walls and benches of the great hall in Beowulf owed more to the unknown author's imagination than to historical fact. At Yeavering, Hope-Taylor found no trace of such gold-leaf splendors: only a few potsherds, knives, belt fittings, nails, loom weights and a single gold coin. But the finds date from the 7th century A.D.-and he feels reasonably sure that King Edwin really ruled from this barbaric palace. It may have been the actual hall where he was converted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Barbaric Palace | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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