Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were minded to, the prospective all-Southern Conference champs could trace their Alma Mater's life back to pre-Harvard days. For even before New England had been settled, the tobacco planters of Virginia tried to establish a college. An Indian massacre wiped out faculty and students though, and that...
...once you've tired of the tune, is like turning Beethoven's Fifth in for scrap because you know the ... theme. There's more to Goodman's record than the melody, the words, and Peggy Lee. After a lull of two months, it can be unexpectedly exciting. You can trace this to this arrangement (Eddie Sauter's?), which is distinctly first-rate. If Goodman had played the tune as specified by the publishers, it probably would have died a-borning. As the facts go, the record was Goodman's first hit in ages...
...meantime Colonel Carlson had led the main group of Marines toward the heart of the island. They crept into several shacks, found them empty except for such things as a piano and a roll of sacred music (the Marines found no trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms...
...000th alert. Recently some towns had alerts 36 nights running. Everywhere you see destroyed houses, while factories show little damage. Factories are repaired immediately after attack, but houses are left in ruins to be rebuilt after the war. Despite all Germany's military successes, there is no trace of confidence among the people. All they want is peace." The German civilian Luftschutz (air defense) organization had changed its name to Selbstschutz (self-defense), was conscripting everyone between 15 and 70 except cripples and pregnant women. Germany's five stongest radio stations-(Berlin, Luxembourg, Stuttgart, Munich...
...HIGH WINDOW - Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Tough but intelligent Private Detective Marlowe, hired to trace a valuable coin missing from a California collection, stays to solve murders, past & present, in a wealthy and belligerent clan. Excellent writing, fantastic characters and shrewd detecting place it among the best...