Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acuff, son of an oldtime fiddler, was a second-string radio singer a few years ago, when Columbia Recording Corp., trying to trace an old English ballad, The Great Speckled Bird, found that Acuff knew it and hundreds more. Columbia signed him up. Since then, he has made four motion pictures (two still unreleased) and barrowfuls of money. Recently he put down $25,000 cash for an old mansion on Nashville's fashionable Hillsboro Road...
...most of Boolba's time is spent in the lab, where he explains wide band amplifiers with a longering trace of Russian in his voice. He is also a teaching Fellow in Electronics, instructor in Engineering 270. Nevertheless, Boolba finds time to give attention to his many hobbies, which include painting, writing poetry, playing the piano, vegetarianism, and blondes...
Over them all hovered the spirit of Hambletonian, progenitor of champions. Never a flashy winner, Hambletonian (1849-76) broke no records. But his blazing spirit and his success as a sire made him a harness immortal. Ninety-five per cent of top trotters today trace their blood to him through at least one line. Standard breds, from Hambletonian down, are still the only purely U.S. contribution to the sporting horse, and to a sport where age as well as youth is served...
...ropy spittle, dollar-size blisters in its mouth and rotting hoofs, the whole herd was liquidated. Trench diggers dug the graves, the cattle were herded in, the rifles crackled. When the cows were dead their hides were slashed, the bodies covered with lime, the graves covered up. Not a trace of the infected cows must remain...
Cattlemen protested, got out their rifles again, but to no avail. John Mohler moved ruthlessly on, stamping out every trace of the disease. It spread to the mountains of California, where no graves could be dug. John Mohler herded the cattle into canyons, blasted rock from the hillsides to cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep...