Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equipment from two Harvard buildings: on Sunday, two $300 VCRs were taken from the Boylston Language Lab, and on Tuesday two microphones worth $500 were stolen from the Science Center. All of the stolen equipment had been previously engraved with Harvard identification numbers, so police may be able to trace the merchadise...
Gimotty said he has not excluded the possibility that the two gifts were sent by the same person, but that there is no way to trace their origins...
...dead of night over western North Carolina, a twin-engine Cessna plunges into a mountainside in the Nantahala National Forest. There is no trace of the pilot. Having bailed out 70 miles to the northwest over Tennessee, he now lies dead in a suburban Knoxville backyard, tangled in the reserve parachute that he apparently opened too late. Strapped to his body is a green Army duffel bag containing $15 million in cocaine...
...volumes' worth of plays, novels, stories, poems, essays, diaries and letters, Meyer scatters all the fascinating and self-contradictory clues a reader could ask for. Strindberg emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with a "trace of shyness." The great intimidator confessed to being "afraid of the dark," as well as of "dogs, horses, strangers." He did not lack that rarest trait of the possessed, a sense of humor. He loved Dickens. He translated Mark Twain. When the mood was upon him, possibly after...
This method has scored some dazzling successes over the years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for example, used it to trace prints from a box of pizza to a professional hit man who had gunned down a target while posing as a delivery boy. But some police complain that their computers are too slow and too undependable for routine police work. A typical computer search of the files can take more than six seconds per fingerprint and often overlooks prints that are even slightly smudged...