Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fears are felt for his safety. The Junker Airplane Company, is bringing two planes to Spitzbergen for rescue work, and unless the explorer is heard from within a reasonable time, they will circle the Arctic Zone in the direction of the Pole, scanning the vast ice pack for trace of the aviator, who, with his pilot, has supplies for but 24 hours...
Other historical exhibits will trace the influence which Sweden has had from other parts of Europe, England, France, Germany and even Russia and the east. A particularly interesting part of this is the section devoted to ecclesiastical art and architecture which illustrate the influence which various types of church construction in other parts of Europe have had in Sweden...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet airman, took a trip in an aeroplane over the Alps to Paris. The French were so excited that they sent 24 battle plans to greet him. Since then he is reported as having literally vanished into thin air. No trace of him can be discovered, although it is hoped that he has only had a forced landing in some remote place...
...results are perhaps most amusing when prophets write history and historians prophesy. Mr. Wells' facile pen was able to trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time...
...figue in khaki shirt and blue trousers had been seen running along the Charles River bank opposite the Mount Auburn Cemetery at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Several of Clapp's friends and a detail of Metropolitan Police searched the woods and swamps below the Speedway, but no trace had been found at the hour of going to press...