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Word: tracings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yacht belonging to the Italian Navy to a point off the African coast opposite the Oasis of Jarabub. Gazing toward the Oasis from the shiny deck, the Marquis Negrotto Dicambiaso for Italy and Sidik Pasha for Egypt will determine the exact disposition to be made of the Oasis, and trace the future rectifications of the frontier between Egypt and Italian Tripoli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Jarabub | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...purport lodge in these formal messages?a hint of vague hatreds, of malice palely half-smiling from faces as yellow as the telegraph blanks, and as inscrutable? It was hard to be sure. The police, at all events, evinced some interest in the messages; they were also curious to trace certain long distance telephone calls from Boston to obscure places in the Chinese quarters of St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh?calls in which the connection had been requested in carefully articulated English, followed by the rushing speech of a dim voice haranguing in a chant of monosyllables an unseen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tong | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...still striking, if some of his compatriots are yelling "Down with the British" and "Kill all foreigners," if some other Chinese left the British Legation at Peking last week because they feared for their lives at the hands of angry Chinese students, in Washington Mr. Sze showed not a trace of hostility on his face. He was smiling in his customary genial way, quite sure that China was to receive at last the attention for which these many years she has been clamoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Diplomatic Feather | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...attention to those peewit minds which are inclined to quibble over the minutiae. You have the right idea of what a weekly should be and you have certainly "hit the spot with me." But one admonition, and that for the future only, since I have never seen a trace of the fault in TIME in the past. That is: BEWARE OF OPINIONATED NEWS! Only facts, presented as you present them, are all that is necessary to keep TIME the unimpeachable criterion of all publications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 1, 1925 | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...flag was pulled down by workmen when they reported early yesterday morning, but not before the bunting had been observed by a considerable number of students on the way to early classes. No trace of the way to early classes. The perpetrator of this latest protest is unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED FLAG IS HOISTED ON NEW COUNTING HOUSE ROOF | 5/15/1925 | See Source »

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