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Word: tracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rough base of the tongue. If that were so, he was reasonably sure that he could remove all offensive odors by gargling with a cheap deodorant like chloramine. Reason for Dr. Haggard's confidence: He had been ''able to remove quickly from the skin all trace of the odor from the discharge of a skunk (accidentally received) with the use of a strong suspension of chlorinated lime in water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Onions & Garlic | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Patrick Balfour stepped from his train into London one dull, grey morning, stopped to read a sandwichman's sign: "To India by Rolls-Royce car for ?34." A Scot who could trace his ancestors to Robert the Bruce, Patrick Balfour knew that there must be a catch in it somewhere. Nevertheless two weeks later he was on his way to the Far East, traveling with strangers in two old automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scotch Holiday | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...shall be destroyed"; when he reminded them that though Satan's time on earth is up, he "refuses to get out" and so must also be destroyed, under the leadership of Jesus Christ. Burden of Judge Rutherford's rambling remarks, delivered in a clear voice with a trace of Southern accent, was that the Day of Armageddon is at hand. "My language." said the Judge, "is wholly inadequate to describe that battle. But quotations will give you an idea." Thereupon he produced from Scripture a series of lurid pictures of plagues, storms, flashings of fire, quenchings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jehovah's Witness | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

Would you kindly let us know at your earliest convenience, so that we may take steps to trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...series of five lectures to be given at the University of Minnesota this week, Dr. Gaetano Salvemini will trace events leading to the fall of Rome, correlating them with moral, pathological, agricultural, and economic troubles of the times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salvemini Lectures | 5/8/1935 | See Source »

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