Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are only five 1942 Nashes in Siam," continued the cable, so the search should have been easy. Yet a hunt led by Siam's Supreme Police Chief himself and a proffered reward of 1,000 ticals (approx. $67) failed to turn up a trace of the missing car, or the recently discharged royal chauffeur who disappeared at the same time...
...author of the latest and most comprehensive-but by no means the best written or most imaginative-Dickens biography, Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, is the first biographer to make use of the mass of Nonesuch and other new material. Readers will find no trace of literary judgment, but they will find every last detail of Dickens' stormy life, from crib to coffin...
...earlier volumes: Darkness and the Deep, The Golden Rooms). Without doubt these are the most remarkable subhistorical works ever written in the State of Idaho. Unrelated to one another so far as "story" goes, they are part of what Fisher obviously regards as a serious attempt to trace "the origin and evolution of human morality" from the days of the ape man to relatively modern times. At what point of human development the saga will end is not clear, nor is it altogether clear how far along it is now. The period of Intimations seems to be vaguely Pleistocene...
...explain the origin. When the late, and I believe great newspaperman, Arthur Brisbane, took over the Mirror to haul it out of the red ... I was his pupil and aide. He once wrote me something he said someone had told him. That's as far as I can trace the genealogy of the quote; but it still makes pretty good advice for a young newspaperman or a young politician...
...second and third generations of a multimillionaire tobacco family, the Whitfields. Their native habitat (at Winton, N.C.) is a vast Gothic architectural horror built by the founder of the family fortune. Their pathological capers later take them to Manhattan, Florida and Europe. Some readers may think that they can trace an allusion, in the heir in this novel, to Zachary Smith Reynolds (of the Tobacco Reynoldses), whose wife, Libby Holman, was exonerated after his death by shooting...