Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vessels of animals, but their hottest emotions are always ready to leap to the aid of their coldest calculations. In a jealous woman, for example, Colette sees "the development of a sense of hearing, virtuosity of vision, speed and silence of steps, the sense of smell directed towards the trace left behind by hair, by a perfumed powder, the passage of an indiscreetly happy person-all this recalls very closely the exercises of soldiers on a campaign, and the knowledge of poachers...
When a third case stemming from the wedding was reported next day, the Department of Health went into action. Their quarry: the carrier who must have transmitted the typhoid. Five investigators and two nurses got in touch with all wedding guests they could trace, had them checked for infection. But many people at the party had just drifted in for the fun, and their names were unknown. As the investigators rang doorbells, three more guests came down with typhoid...
...admired no one but you, I want no one but you. Answer me at once, and assuage the impatient passion of 'N.' " Only with his wife Josephine, whom he wooed and married before his own greatness was assured, did he show any trace of human frailty. "Had I a heart so base as to love without return, I would tear it to pieces with my teeth. Joséphine! Joséphine! . . . My heart, utterly engrossed with you, has fears that make me miserable...
...middle Bronze Age man) came to Beersheeba about 1500 B.C. One short reference puzzled them. The book of Genesis (14:6) refers to Horites (cave dwellers) who lived "by the wilderness" and were smitten by Chedorlaomer, King of Elam. But until the fall of Perrot's man, no trace of the Horites had been found...
...atmosphere. Later, studying the plates in the laboratory, Dr. Schein got more and more excited as he followed a peculiar ray track through the pack. The track was a bundle of slim Vs made by pairs of negative and positive electrons and there was no trace of larger charged particles (e.g., protons) usually present. His cautious conclusion: "something" had hit the film pack with the unheard-of energy of 10 million billion electron-volts...