Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Andrews was no ordinary soldier. He was the voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier...
...interests at the absurdly low price of $410,000. Among the minor achievements of John Ringling is the acquirement of three Western railroads. Such is his knowledge of the route his circus must travel that he once won a bet of a dinner by demonstrating that he, blindfolded, could trace a railroad line from the capital of any state to the smallest town in the territory...
Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene got a man who sold oil to Sinclair et al to tell his story. Then they requisitioned bank records to show that Mr. Fall had received Liberty Bonds, hoping to trace these bonds back to the oil transaction. The court ruled that these records did not directly connect Fall and Sinclair in conspiracy and were therefore "manifestly immaterial." Thereupon, the Government counsel prepared to go into the second scene and attempted to trace the bonds in the opposite direction- from Sinclair to Fall. Because so many witnesses are abroad, this will be difficult, but Messrs. Roberts...
...trade route from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was hard on the traveler. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where there is to be found a trace of the western culture left by Alexander and the traders who followed him. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally came out into the Kansu province...
With the passing of the "Cotton Belt" into the control of the Rock Island Road ends the battle of the old giants. The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, known as the "Cotton Belt", was the last trace of the great steel network, which Jay Gould conceived and created, still to remain in the hands of his family. Now Edwin Gould without fuss or ceremony relinquishes...