Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contemporary events. Surely, few in the departments of Economics, Government, and History are not interested in that vital history now on the march. Surely, in one course at least, the history of the past could be made the corollary of an avowed intensive study of the present. To trace back the causes of present events to authoritative sources in the past is, after all, only traversing the same corridor in an opposite direction, backed by the impetus of living data...
...Author. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 46, good-looking but unmarried, lives near Springfield, Ky., where she was born, whither some of her ancestors had plodded from Virginia over "Boone's Trace." Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress...
...word 'Caesar' is said to mean Caesar, this involves the assumption of much historical knowledge. It might be possible to trace back the noises which the Romans made when thew saw the conqueror coming, and which were used in acclamation of the emperor by the Roman mobs. Though the whole concept of meaning is vague, the meaning of a word lies largely in its ability to produce an effect, as when we call someone by name...
...first of a series of nine lectures, Professor Friedrich von der Leyon of the University of Cologne will speak in the Germanic Museum today at 4 o'clock on "Prehistoric Germany." In the following lectures, which will be given in German, von der Leyen will trace the development of German literature from the earliest times to the present day. The history of painting, sculpture, and the arts, as well as the drama and stage settings, will also be treated in the light of their connection with German culture...
...contributed for Democratic use in Virginia against Alfred Emanuel Smith in the 1928 campaign. The Bishop had juggled his accounts beyond all senatorial comprehension and then successfully defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans actions was $65,300 contributed by Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York insurance man (TIME, April 28, 1930 et seq.). Of this sum Bishop Cannon had failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young...