Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alumni Weekly appears a curiously skeptical editorial. . . . It "humbly suggests" that the Princetonian adduce facts and figures to establish its contention that a general decline of interest in extra-curricular activities marks the Princeton Campus today. "Has the Princetonian made a thorough survey?" asks the Weekly (which has a "trace of the Missourian" in its make-up). If not, let its candidates set to work compiling statistics on competitions and squad turn-outs for the last five years in order that it may speak with authority...
Like the terrible secret of the U. S. Navy collier Cyclops (TIME, July 14), the exact fate of France's dirigible Dixmude has remained a mystery since 1923. Last week it was reported that the French Government might send an expedition into the Sahara to trace stories of desert tribesmen that the ship's wreckage lay about 300 mi. south of In Salah. No European, it was said, had ever penetrated there...
...base at Cuers-Pierrefou for a 72-hour flight over North Africa. On the third day, near Biskra, a storm struck her, disabled her wireless and motors, blew her across Tunis toward Sicily. Thence the Dixmude's trail sprawled octopus-like with conflicting "eyewitness" reports. First authentic trace occurred nine days later when Sicilian fishermen pulled in with their nets the body of du Plessis de Grenedan, the Dixmude's commander. No other body has been found. But tribesmen have insisted that on the sixth day after the storm they saw the Dixmude, obviously out of control, drifting...
Professor Hind will trace the influences of the masters from the Middle Ages down to modern art. The subjects of his lectures will be as follows: February 5, "Adam Elsheimer and Northern Artists in Rome"; February 12, "Rubens and Van Dyck in their Relations with Italy"; February 19, "Poussin and Claude"; February 26, "Claude's Drawings"; March 5, "El Greco and Modern Art"; March 12, Conclusion: "Italy the School of the world...
...LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! " - so loud, so clear, so utterly without a trace of accent were the Dictator's opening words that thousands of Americans jumped, marveled...