Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever says: "What is the use of learnings that three times nine is twenty seven?" Yet Latin is the three times nine of the majority of the modern languages. More than 65 per cent of the words we use trace back to the Latin root. A knowledge of Latin greatly increases the understanding of the full meaning of words used in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and practically all other languages used in commerees and increasingly, a thorough knowledge of the meaning of words and ability to speak and to understand languages are becoming necessary to success in business...
Tonight he will trace the next step in the development of poetry, and show how the very elementary molpe evolved into the drama "Metre" will be the subject of the next lecture, which will take place on Friday...
Mademoiselle Lenglen spoke English fluently in a low voice with just a trace of Parisian accent. Her manner was quite charming. The reporter forgot in his admiration to ask just how she got that straight back-hand drive and gabbled instead a trite question about professional tennis...
...last week by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews and R. G. Van Sittart for Great Britain. Joint co-operation in the British West Indies (with particular reference to the Bahamas) is assured whereby: 1) The U. S. may have an Intelligence Service in the Islands to trace liquor shipments; 2) Joint precautions will be taken against false registration of ships...
...everyone knows, Shakespeare's dramas, Henry IV and Henry V, trace the development of "Prince Hal," from the days when he consorted with wild tavern rakes until he ascended the throne as Henry V, spurned Falstaff, became renowned as a monarch sagacious and brave...