Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than that, newsmen learned that Elmer Davis, who had survived three years of Oxford without losing a trace of his Hoosier accent, had been perceptibly affected by a month in Washington. As he put it, his outlook on Army and Navy news had changed since crossing "to the other side of the fence...
...Department of Psychology of the City College of New York, will lecture on William James and Psychical Research this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the large lecture room of Fogg Museum. First describing how psychical problems were approached in the time of James, he will then trace the progress made since then, emphasizing the development of the experimental method. According to Murphy, psychologists today are adapting laboratory techniques to problems which men formerly merely explored...
...first attempt in fiction to present General Washington from the inside out, as a suffering and growing human being. Wholly successful or not, Author Fast's portrait is persuasive, moving, alive and bold. Fast's Washington has touches of Lincoln about him, possibly even a trace of General Kutuzov in Tolstoy's War and Peace. But in his own right he is a great human character...
Tricky Boules. Like natural rubies and sapphires,* synthetics are simply fused aluminum oxide. A tiny trace of chromium oxide makes jewels a ruby-red color, titanium oxide makes them sapphire-blue. Color is unimportant in industrial jewels except as it makes them easier to see, cut, assemble...
...addition it is expected that the Network will broadcast daily a full hour devoted entirely to Music 1 students. These broadcasts will probably be heard between 8 and 9 o'clock, four times weekly, since they will trace the development of music from Mozart to the present, they will probably be of interest to the entire Network audience...