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Word: tracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most ski addicts can trace their initial interest in the sport to the spellbinding ski jumps seen in the newsreels. But they soon learned that ski jumping could not be mastered in "ten easy lessons." Last week, when the national ski-jumping champion ships were held at St. Paul, only a few natives were good enough to enter the Class A competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ski Riders | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...rightfully follows a Yale game. It is not the gay abandon of a May evening's hilarity in the Yard or Square. That exuberance and abandon are always present in the blood. But this gaiety is one scientifically, commercially, injected into the veins with a syringe. There is no trace of the real Christmas at this party. Vag and girl leave abruptly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

...Over there you roll over long sloping patters without a trace of trees," he said, "while over here you have to gangue your turns accurately, often to the split second, in order to avoid ending up sixteen feet in the woods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPERT RANKS YANKEE SKIING TRAILS AS HARD | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

Cambridge, with three nationally-known colleges inside its city limits, has a unique problem in regard to out-of-state cars. With so many students driving cars registered in other states, accidents, stolen cars, and the misuse of stored cars by garage attendants are very difficult to trace; names of the car owners, local addresses, and other necessary information are lacking at Police Headquarters. Furthermore Cambridge city statutes are quite stringent, and, should a student involved in an accident not report it within a reasonable time, he becomes liable for criminal action. If the necessary information was available at Central...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCILIATION CUM CAMBRIDGE | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...examining the exhibited printings, it is possible to trace the development of music printing. In the first fifty years after printing was invented, from 1450 to 1500, no effective system was discovered for writing notes; but, in 1503, Ottavino dei Petrucci contrived movable type of sufficient accuracy to cope with the demands of the elaborate new "florid song," or counterpoint. There is shown a unique selection of Petrucci's editions, which required separate impressions for letters, staffs, and notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/29/1938 | See Source »

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