Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assailants escaped leaving no trace but some empty cartridge shells and rumors of a Polish accent. Professor Valdemaras was unhurt, carried his wounded little grandnephew into the theatre lobby, later sat by the dying child's bedside all night long. Early in the morning, the Professor-Prime Minister returned wearily to begin another day's work at the Foreign Office...
Policeman and officer searched diligently. Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes. Detectives from Scotland Yard joined the search, but no trace of the scarlet-coated, white-belted sentry could be found...
...Cole, Associate Professor of Economics, to allow him to trace geographical variations of commodity prices from 1790 to 1860, and to direct specific attention to the history of commodity prices in New England in order to establish a commodity price index for that area...
...another Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...
...France did not stop with the post-impressionists, the present day tendencies are represented by the work of Matisse, Picasso, Gromaire, Villon, and Braque. The exhibition is the largest of its kind shown in America up to the present time, and an interested public now has an opportunity to trace the complicated development of the nineteenth century. In this period new creative forces were stirring--new ideals arose which sought expression in new forms. The age was weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn...