Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adventurous and inventive spirit which had characterized French, or more exactly Parisian painting . . . hardly a trace remains. All the work produced during the Occupation (except Picasso's . . .) told of a passive, bewildered acceptance of exhausted motives...
...occasion was moving. The diplomats and the cabinet members were there; the galleries were jammed. Stoutly controlling a trace of nervousness as he read from a big, black notebook, Harry Truman first paid eloquent tribute to his predecessor, and added...
...Well," he related, "the nerviest convict I can remember was one brazen fellow who didn't show a trace of fear while being strapped into the chair. Took it just as calmly. As a matter of fact, he asked only one question. Just before they turned on the juice, he glanced at the official electrocutioner and said, 'By the way, bud, is this AC or DC?' " JOHN HARDEN
...some walls stand, but they are shells. The Prudential Insurance skyscraper (twelve stories) had lost its tower and one could look right through holes from one side of the building to the other. Only one church could be seen standing: the Wizytek on Cracow Street. There was not a trace of St. Alexander Church in the Square of the Three Crosses, or of the famous Holy Cross Church...
...nature the greatest of economic adventures. For good or ill, 1944 is likely to leave a permanent impression on the course of American affairs because it was the year in which each of four short documents (the longest of them only 48 printed pages) attempted to trace an outline* of means to attain permanent full employment. All four of the proposals, two from the U.S., two from Britain, acknowledged implicitly or explicitly a revolution in economic thinking that has been in progress since the depression: the belief that the state-and only the state-can create conditions in which productivity...