Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal intervention in the case of Burgess of whom no trace has been discovered since November, the day when his coat was discovered neatly folded on a Charles River bridge is based on the assumption that an inter-state crime is connected with his disappearance...
Whereas the old heavy type of pick-up had to be moved with care so as not to run radially over the surface of the record, the new one can be slid across the surface without leaving the faintest trace of its path...
...small two-way projector known as a moviola, the animator spots "bugs and bobbles," jerkiness or missteps in the animation. Not until a set of drawings is approved by Walt and the director does it go to the inking and "painting department, where over 150 nimble-fingered girls trace the sketches on 12½-by-15-in. celluloid transparencies, called "cels," paint in the designated coloring from a store of 1,500 colors and shadings. All Disney cartoons have been done in color since February...
Typical of his half-realistic, half-symbolic stories is "And in the Distance a Light . . ." that tells how a group of militiamen in Madrid find a spy flashing a light in the dark, kill him after they locate the spy to whom he is signaling. All night long they trace the light across the city, killing an engineer, an aviator, a girl, until by morning they have reached the front lines of the fascists, are still feverishly following the gleam when fascist bullets stop their search...
...that only a Central European can write a good symphony, little Finland's great man Sibelius is regarded by many a musician as the lineal successor of Beethoven and Brahms. His present fame has arrived slowly and late. His music, individual, serious, austere and sometimes forbidding, contains no trace of modernistic tricks or formulas. As he once remarked to his publisher (in Swedish) "Här i utlandet fabricemr ni cocktails i olika külorer, och nu kommer jag med rena källvattnet" ("Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure cold...