Word: traces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting ready for the campaign, the Democratic National Committee ordered copies of the official Truman campaign picture. It is a reproduction of an oil portrait painted last spring by a New York artist, Greta Kempton. It shows the President without the trace of a grin...
...would, old Armyman Stimson could not hide his real convictions. Though he found Navy Secretary Frank Knox "a man of robust integrity without any trace of pettiness," he could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...
...dramatic activity after the low plumbed in the late thirties. The University has evidence of strong undergraduate support for a War Memorial Student Activities Center, which according to plans would include an auditorium theatre. If SAC should be vetoed as a War Memorial, future historians would be able to trace an attitude that was born in Puritan times, and that was still alive and screaming in 1925, through at least 22 more years...
Antony and Cleopatra (by William Shakespeare; produced by Katharine Cornell) is one of the world's greatest plays and the theater's greatest problems. It does far more than celebrate one of the most famous of all love affairs; more even than trace the downfall of one of the most powerful figures of history through his dalliance with one of the most passionate. Antony and Cleopatra is a swarming and forever-shifting chronicle of conspiracies and conquests, of realms and empires. In amplitude, it is a kind of War and Peace among plays; and the knotty problem...
University employees, armed with flashlights, gathered in the darkened stairwell to trace burnt out electrical fixtures and sadly contemplate plaster falling from the hallway ceilings. They vowed that University officials would uncover the culprit or take disciplinary action against the whole entry...