Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nonobjective" art is the purist's name for abstract art in which no trace of actuality remains. A cubist breakdown of the statutory cubist wine bottle and guitar would not qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...
Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?), though not a Nazi, is still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...
This year Greek archeologists have been exploring the site of Thermopylae, hoping to find some tangible trace of the battle. Last week they reported success-spears, arrows and other weapons, crusted with rust after lying 2,419 years where the warriors of Thermopylae dropped them. They were buried in silt deposited by the River Spercheius, which has enlarged the pass from a bottleneck 14 yards wide to an alluvial plain one and one-half to three miles across...
...have given binding declarations to a large number of States. None of these States can complain that even a trace of a demand contrary thereto has ever been made to them by Germany...
Scope of The Races of Europe* is ambitious: "To trace the racial history of the white division of Homo sapiens from its Pleistocene [Glacial Age] beginnings to the present." Dr. Coon believes that the species Homo sapiens-modern man-evolved as early as the middle of the Pleistocene, or even earlier.† The first known white representatives were short men with long heads. Some of them blended with bulky Neanderthaloid types, produced a fairly stable hybrid group. After the Pleistocene's end these hybrids survived in Europe as hunters and fishers. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean area a race...