Word: traces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most people suppose that the Arctic Circle is extremely could, but it really has a temperature which is about the same as northern Montana in the winter time. In the plains just east of the Rocky Mountains in Alaska for instance, there is no trace of glaciation, while it is known that at one time, all of New England was covered by an immense ice-sheet...
Through the invention by Mr. Sperry of a special high-intensity light, it has been possible to make the large search-lights for Army, Navy, and commercial uses of much less weight and, therefore, of greater mobility and usefulness. Mr. Sperry will trace the development and application of these lights and of the remarkable results obtained with them...
...Sperry, President of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union next Monday evening, November 15th, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Department of Astronomy. Mr. Sperry will tell of the development of the Sperry gyrocompass and Sperry stabilizer, and will trace the remarkable results obtained in the new high intensity searchlight. The address will be open to the public...
...course in which Professor J. Franklin Jamieson will describe the American Revolution as a social movement supplements that of Professor Baker in applying the lessons of the past to the problems of the present. Professor Herbert Eugene Bolton of the University of California, who comes to trace, for the benefit of Lowell Institute audiences, the expansion of the Spanish empire in America, is an authority in a branch of American history which perhaps has not received the attention which it merits. Boston Transcript...
...were elected for one purpose: to represent and execute the wishes of their constituencies. That is the one thing they have consistently avoided doing. The country at large is more than impatient over their mud-slinging squables. Ratification is what America wants, and if the Senators have the slightest trace of political sagacity they will get together on reservations and pass the treaty without delay...