Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tide. That is when the salt sound water is most diluted by the fresh river water. Something in the river water evidently makes the very young oysters want to nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also iron, magnesium) makes oysters a fine blood-builder in the human diet...
...cold, improvising repairs, and raced home next day to Associated Press and Paramount News with first news pictures of the Viking disaster (TIME, March 23 and 30). From the other plane, a Sikorsky amphibian, ice-wise Bernt Balchen and two companions had scanned the floes in vain for a trace of Varick Frissell, the young Yale graduate who, with 25 others, was missing after the sealing ship exploded. Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell of Manhattan, had sent them up -Balchen, F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow-because he was doggedly hopeful that his son was alive...
...Senate lashed the Attorney General out of office while its investigators were following the trail of his gang's graft to the doors of Brother Mal's Ohio bank. Asked for his ledgers to trace the deposits inside, Brother Mal said he had burned them up. Long afterward the Supreme Court of the U. S. in a famed decision said his behavior was wrong and ordered him to tell the Senate all he knew about the Ohio Gang's fiscal affairs. But the Senate had ceased to care, never asked any more questions, let Brother Mal continue...
...shifting sand. Scientific speculation has long visualized there a central, sunken oasis capable of sustaining life. Midway of his 58-day trek, Explorer Thomas crossed deep caravan tracks. He learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds-the "singing sands" of tribal tradition, which says they are desert-wandering "Djinns," spirits of the dead mourning for life...
Because I have been interested in collecting the folklore of American printing and printers I should be glad if anyone can accurately trace this custom of turning tombstones face down to the use of irreverent printers...