Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EYELESS IN GAZA-Aldous Huxley- Harper ($2.50). The literary career of Aldous Huxley has been marked with many guideposts. It has not been his fault if critics have been unable to trace the stages of his development. At the age of 41 he has produced some 24 books, including novels, plays, poems, anthologies, travel books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when...
...Christian ("Bill") Bul litt, had been thoroughly scraped, oiled and polished. Sculptor Donato again sprinted for the Mayor's office, there met with fur ther bad news. A third WPA crew, he was told, had got at a bronze Washington in front of Independence Hall, holystoned away every trace of its treasured greenish mold. The WPA ducked further trouble with aroused Sculptor Donato by announcing that it had no more time to devote to scrubbing statues...
...band burst into the Fascist anthem: Giovinezza! A British military band hurriedly sprayed the air with a brassy countermelody. With the little Emperor was his "good" son-in-law, Ras Desta Demtu, and Ras Kassa, who fought the Italians in the north. Sharp eyes could find no trace of lean Ras Nassibu, defender of Harar, who was last seen with the Emperor just before he sailed from Djibouti. Immediately sanguine tongues prattled that Ras Nassibu had gone back to fight some more for his country...
...author attempts to trace through her scene in the southeast part of Yorkshire the pattern of "the complex tangle of motives prompting public decisions, the unforeseen consequences of their enactment on private lives." Readers unfamiliar with English local government will do well to turn to Vera Brittain's note (in an appendix) explaining the history and functions of county councils...
Accredited members of the diplomatic corps are allowed to bring into the U. S., duty free, "baggage and effects for personal use." Investigation could trace only 26 of the articles on sale to the Iranian Legation. Washington promptly telegraphed the customs office in New York to see how many more of these rugs and knickknacks had appeared on M. Ghods's original customs declaration...