Word: traces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trim little maestro who serves up this musical corn felt that its popularity was natural and deserved. Said Bandleader-Songwriter Al Trace: "We always knew this music was in for keeps. Other stuff comes & goes, but this is the people . . . We play down to them, play requests and mention their names. We give them a good time and we play stuff they can dance to. How can you miss...
...science scratches below the surface of the physical universe, it turns up more & more mysterious matters. A very small ghost, much smaller than an electron, now haunts modern physics. Its name, for want of something better, is the "neutrino." No one has ever seen a neutrino, or any trace which one has left behind it, but physicists are pretty certain that neutrinos are real. Just possibly, they may be the most important things in the physical universe...
...were an announcement of the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Of the men & women who made purely partisan speeches, Columnist Lippmann wrote: "Never did they admit that they had ever been wrong, less than wise, less than the only true defenders of the faith, or that one trace of humility or magnanimity could be allowed to mitigate their absolute self-righteousness...
...book begins in one of the awful periods in history when "the noble British nation seems to fall from its high estate, loses all trace of sense or purpose, and appears to cower from the menace of foreign peril, frothing pious platitudes while foemen forge their arms." It ends with his appointment as Prime Minister...
...when a big, detonating "fireball" from space streaked across the Midwest last Feb. 18, the Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies wanted a sample of it, and Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, meteorite hunter of the University of New Mexico, set out to trace one. It took him two months to find several fragments in Norton County, Kans. One of them weighed 130 Ibs. and was made of stony material mixed with globules of nickel and iron...