Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April, the third son, John, returned from the Army. The settled hopelessness in his home started him on a new hunt through the hospitals, morgues, missions, flop houses and police stations. He found no trace until he tried the Missing Persons Bureau. A blurred photograph bore his father's name, but no address. A file card said that Joseph Rogon had died of bronchial pneumonia in Chicago's dreary, red-brick Bridewell Prison Hospital...
...Some etymologists trace the term to another Irishman named Hooley, whose gang became known as the Hooley-gang. Still others connect it vaguely with a notorious thug named Muldoon whose name spelled backwards reads "noodlum"; hence hoodlum and hooligan...
Interviews will last approximately ten minutes, and the Committee plans to select the delegate either Wednesday night or very soon thereafter. Although no formal "briefing" for the individual chosen is planned, shipboard discussions and a New York meeting for the American group before the conference will trace the background and main purpose of the convention...
...usual method: trace an outline of the child's hand, draw in life-size warts with a red or blue pencil. The child is told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...
None of the audience saw the bird when it left the stage of the Colonial, so that several Poonmen who rushed up several minutes later were unable to trace their pet. Baffled, they returned to their lair to await further developments...