Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equipment, the Athletic Association expects to make less material supply more men. Not only will much of the equipment be able to be saved from year to year, but a portion of it may be used for several sports. The central supply room will enable authorities to keep better trace of the outfits dealt out, and the needs of each team will be more adequately cared...
...That a play in nine episodes such as "Escape" could run twenty weeks in New York is a good deal of a triumph. If you were to tell an average playwright to take nine scenes, a prisoner escaping, and later being caught, with no trace of romance, and write a play out of it, he would turn out something of a mess, unquestionably. There is not much on the surface to work with...
...Post Office, the Department of Justice and chemists of the Naval Laboratory were asked to trace out the dark roots of a dastard, sinister conspiracy. To marveling callers, Senator Heflin showed how, had he tucked the fiendish violin under his massive chin, he might have inhaled microbes. He then answered a question that had puzzled many people-why he is allowed to live...
...music lovers in Madison, Wis., have at last been afforded relief from the stench pervading recent concerts. Madison, it seems, having no adequate house for big musical events, is forced to use the agricultural school's stock pavilion where many a lowing cow has left behind a scent-trace of its blue-ribboned presence. Citizen C. H. L'Hommediue of the Floralo Incense Co. saved the situation last week by spraying the place with a special eucalyptus formula of his own so that an audience could sit in aesthetic repose through a concert by the Madison Civic Orchestra...
...chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...