Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Were we to trace the course of all nine curves on an all-purpose graph, we would find it asymptotically approaching an abscissa. In other words, they're getting flatter. This is deplorable...
...Chinese murals on loan to the gallery. All were well-preserved examples of 12th century Chinese wall painting, brilliant scenes of ancient deities in jewels and flowing robes; in one, Roth saw a curious crack running across the surface, and down inside the fissure he spotted a trace of bright blue paint peeping through. Then the murals went back to their owner and Roth forgot about...
Last year the owner decided to give the Nelson gallery the cracked mural. When Roth saw the mysterious trace of blue again, he got permission to try a delicate experiment. He cut a tiny square out of the 800-year-old painting, looked underneath and jumped up with excitement: this time the second layer showed brilliant red. For six months. Roth carefully cut and loosened square after square of the top layer, lifted them out with kitchen spatulas, then carefully scraped and vacuumed off a thin layer of rice husks and mud to expose a second mural underneath the first...
...little bistro in the Rue Pierre Charron. But when detectives, spurred on by the travel agency, in Birmingham, arrived to check up on "the gay Englishman." he had disappeared. The travel agency did not say why they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...
...political science, they will begin to trace "the development of the concept of liberty" by reading the works of Lord Acton and De Tocqueville. Then, in Renaissance literature, they will be concerned with the development of the individual, and later, when they get into the Reformation, with the individual in relation to God. Their biology may begin with Darwin's Origin of Species, their psychology with the writings of Pavlov; their physics will include the works of Von Helmholtz. Even their foreign languages will be involved in the study of ideas-Voltaire in French, Cervantes in Spanish, Dante...