Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HALIFAX, N.S., Feb. 1--Forty-foot waves and freezing 60-mile winds tore the seas off Greenland Sunday, where searchers doggedly sought some trace of the little Danish ship Hans Hedtoft, believed lost with 95 persons after a collision with an iceberg...
...even shorter oral--reputedly the shortest on record--is told of a graduate student up for his Ph.D. in American Civilization. His first problem was to trace the sexual imagery in The Scarlet Letter...
...carbon dioxide. This information does not mean (as many science-fiction writers seem to think) that Venus under its clouds is covered with lush jungles. Earthside plants need carbon dioxide, but their flourishing presence on earth is the reason why the earth's modern atmosphere contains only a trace of CO2. This abundance of carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere is excellent proof that the planet has no earthlike plants...
Bone-Dry Wit. Born in a Hampshire parsonage in 1775, Jane Austen grew up in the world of the French and American Revolutions, and showed no trace of interest in either. The world of her six novels is simply and finally that of genteel young women gunning for husbands (she herself died a spinster at 41). Included inevitably in this world are harassed fathers and embattled moms, superfluous daughters and choosy suitors, haughty heiresses and dashing cads, all playing their parts in an endless round of dances, tea parties and chaperoned strolls, and doing their best never...
...dissatisfied with the research material available-he knew of only about 250 books on the Pacific phase of World War II. So Bill who six years ago bought a set of lead models of Japanese fighting ships with his newspaper-route earnings, and began reading naval histories to trace the namesakes of his toys, decided to go to the sources...