Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no trace of the incongruous about this book, for all that the heroine is (externally) incredibly minute. There is nothing unpleasant or morbid or deformed about Miss M. She is simply the distilled essence of you or me--or any frail other one of "the common size". All the people in these pages are alive. When next I am in Kent I am sure that I shall meet them--all save Miss M. herself who was so lately "called away...
...Holt opened his talk with an expression of approval at the formation of a club in the University bearing the ex-President's name, which he believed, it seems, was in anticipation of the verdict of history. He then proceeded to trace through the ages the various attempts and agitations that have been made for some sort of an association or league of nations. These efforts began to reach their culmination when Mr. Taft's League to Enforce Peace met in Philadelphia before the end of the war, and gave to the world its idea of what principles such...
...very excellence of this new system of government that danger lies. There is a small but powerful party of Extremists who control the National Congress, the great political organization of India and whose purpose is an India not only freed entirely of English rule but purged of every trace of European civilization. This party realizes that if the people became contented with the present representative government, its chance for driving the English from India will be lost. Therefore the greater the prospect of success shown by the new system, the more desperate become the attempts to overthrow it. Satisfied people...
...most remarkable features of the play is its absolute freedom from any trace of professionalism. It was written by undergraduates, the music was composed by undergraduates; and even the scenery was designed and executed by undergraduates. The whole production is given by 85 men, 25 in the orchestra and the rest in the cast and executive staff. The cast was selected by E. H. Wever '21, president of the club, and coached by D. C. Stuart, Professor of Romance Languages...
...fact that the present-day school geographies are usually incorrect on this point. Greenland, however, is an exception to the rules as it has a heavy rainfall and a high altitude, both of which factors tend to produce heavy glaciation. Nevertheless, on the great Canadian Archipelago there is no trace of glaciation for the past thousand years...