Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the draft threatening to decimate undergraduate ranks in every department of the University, Business School Inmates have decided to "hide their light under a bushel" by assiduously secreting themselves behind their text books during all former one-day holidays this season...
...teaching, Painter Woodruff holds to no high-brow theories about Negro art. He believes that the Negro should not hide his race ("to let the world know he can paint and sculp as well as act, sing and write") but that, as an American, he should draw his inspiration from the whole pattern of U.S. life. "We are interested," says he, "in expressing the South as a field, as a territory, its peculiar run-down landscape, its social and economic problems, the Negro people...
Biggest-and still unsolved-problem is labor. Many department-store clerks are young, low-paid and itching to get into war work (or are playing hide & seek with the draft board). Complained one Manhattan storekeeper: "We are using every means to secure additional help, but with little success. . . . It is like getting stabbed in the back to watch business walk out the door simply because it is not possible to get sufficient salespeople...
...officers heard Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, Jr., Commandant of the First Naval District and leader of last spring's attack on the Gilbert Island, call for quick, decisive action throughout their future service. Red tape, hide-bound tradition, he said, must be sacrificed to efficiency when a crisis brings a clash between...
...last week commanded the central front just north of Timoshenko's and probably had a lot to do with the local success near Voronezh. For reasons best known to Joseph Stalin, Zhukov has never been upped to the rank of Marshal-possibly because he took no trouble to hide his deep hatred for the Germans, his disapproval of the late Moscow-Berlin pact...