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...trace" of numerous small German patrols...
Rumors that decisions on the ERC and the ROTC had been made public emanated from a morning Boston newspaper story and an evening radio broadcast. Attempts to trace the newspaper story through the wire services and the Boston and New York press failed to substantiate its statement that the Enlisted Reserve would be called up "within a few weeks." No basis for the radio report could be uncovered. Officials in the Military Science Department and at the First Corps Area Headquarters in Boston reported that they were uninformed of the rumored action...
Both Corot's main periods were represented. Between 1826, when Corot painted the clean, realistic Bridge and Castle St. Angela (with St. Peter's dome in the distance), and 1851, when he painted the solid sunlit Harbor of La Rochelle, Corot's art seldom revealed a trace of the feathery brushwork that later made him so rich a man and so sentimental a landscapist. This less familiar period of Corot's work is represented by 22 canvases. Only the most fanatical Corot connoisseurs will recognize in these masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women...
...scholarship is amazingly thorough and the intimate details such as interviews with now-senile bandits and orators that colored the old West are nothing short of sensational. Wallace Stegner has spent most of his life in Mormon country so he can write their story in their language without any trace of a strained, scholastic note. The story is only vaguely organized; what it loses in form, it gains miraculously in interest. In fact, the personal, informal manner in which the book is written gives fiction along with fact and makes sociology a pleasure...
...Blue Bulldog and he's been biting at Johnnie Harvard's heels for nigh onto 60 years now, but there won't be a trace of senility in the Eli hound's growl when he rushes onto his home greensward to grapple with the Crimson this Saturday in the sixty-first clash of the ivied classic, which started in the same year that the "new dining-club at Memorial Hall" served its first lamb and mint jelly...