Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in its history, the Curtis Publishing Co. finished the year in the red. Its losses amounted to more than $4,000,000. After that, the troubles of the proud publishing empire that likes to trace its lineage back to Benjamin Franklin grew worse. In both financial and publishing circles, faith in Curtis' future became as scarce as advertising in Curtis' magazines. Now the talk has turned-not because of some suddenly successful publishing coup but because of a profitable real estate deal...
...amount of zinc in the human body is so small that textbooks offhandedly record its presence as "a trace." That trace, though, seems important indeed. Small as it is, the body's normal zinc supply is a vital factor in growth. If the supply is increased with daily capsules of an inexpensive zinc compound, said a report sent by Air Force Major Walter J. Pories to the International Congress of Military Medicine in Bangkok, tissue grows so quickly that wounds tend to heal far faster than usual...
...poison that caused symptoms indistinguishable from those of cholera. In 1832, a simple method was developed to detect the arsenic in a cadaver. But by then the chemists had discovered the vegetable alkaloids-morphine, strychnine, cocaine, nicotine, quinine and so on. These poisons seemed to dissolve without a trace in the body of the victim, and for several decades all attempts to demonstrate their presence destroyed both the tissue and the poison. When toxicologists at last learned to detect them, a new problem had appeared with the synthetic alkaloids-Demerol, Dolantin, Pethidine and other modern sedatives. All of them...
...blackout itself remained a mystery yesterday and federal investigators admitted they might never be able to trace the origin of the 80,000 square mile power failure...
...Museum of Fine Arts asked Stieglitz for a set of photographs to inside in its print collection. Early in 1924 Stieglitz sent the Museum 27 prints. The Museum collection now numbers 69 photographs, which are all on display this week. They begin with his early period in Berlin, and trace his artistic progression throughout his career...