Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Sylvia G. Van Rensselaer, granddaughter of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, of Manhattan, to Harold Ingalls Sewall, of Boston and Porto Rico; in Manhattan. It is claimed that Miss Van Rensselaer, a member of one of the oldest families in the U. S., can trace her descent through nine Colonial Governors from the famed Jack Spratt of nursery rhyme...
...doctor did not, however, advise anyone to take up blood supplying as a life profession. "Donors must always be in perfect health, without the slightest trace of disease. We examine a specimen of the blood of everyone who wishes to give some for transfusions, and if it is not absolutely satisfactory we refuse to permit them to supply...
There was a trace of the truly scientific mind in that scamp of a poet when he asked: "Where are the snows of yesteryear...
...graphical representation by maps shaded to represent areas of political importance and strong party feeling. By use of these maps Professor Turner will clearly trace the development of sections, through early immigration, into compact political units. Thus transplanted New England ideas and possibly prejudices, he shows, are strongly focussed in certain sections of the west where pioneer stock settled half a century...
...arts are reputed to confer immortality on their practitioners. Pictures, books, symphonies have a certain agreeable permanence, keeping their composers persistently before the posthumous public. Despite the efforts of the Victor Talking Machine Co., there remains a trace of the ephemeral in the fame of the interpreters of music-even the most exalted of them...