Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early hour this morning no trace had been found of Verner Warren Clapp 1G., of Washington, D. C., missing since yesterday morning. All day the Metropolitan police dragged the Charles River between the Newell and Weld boat houses, working on the theory that Clapp had been drowned. Later developments, however, lead the authorities to believe that he is alive...
Chlorine was found to be a preventative for pneumonia and influenza when it was noticed that men working in the army laboratory where there was a trace of chlorine in the air seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...
...case arose in connection with the bankrupt firm of E. M. Fuller & Co., wherein accountants failed to find any trace of $6,612,000 of securities which should be in the firm's possession. The company failed in 1922, with liabilities of over $1,500,000, and assets of only...
...Andre Citroen, largest automobile manufacturer in France, made a pilgrimage to the Ford plants in Detroit; his enthusiastic admiration was tempered only by a regret at the inartistic character of Mr. Ford's well-known product. " Nothing about Ford or his plant suggests a trace of the finer aesthetic qualities," he stated. " One can make cheap, rapid cars, but they do not have to be ugly." Proposing to give the inexpensive car beauty and form, M. Citroen has announced that he will establish an American plant, designed for mass production, but embodying artistic ideas. The plant will be located...
...literature the only domain of human interest in which the achievements of the ancients may be profitably examined today. Chemists trace their lineage to Lucretius. Darwin declared that he had lost twenty years by not reading Aristotle before he began his own investigations and that his "two gods, Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere school-boys to old Aristotle." Aristotle is no less important for the student of political theory, and the philosopher of today had better make sure that his latest discovery has not been anticipated in whole or in part by Plato. John Stuart Mill, whose word should appeal...