Word: overshadow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of the last, and in many ways the most admirable of his annual reports to the Overseers, President Lowell has inserted a financial item, which in the mind of the undergraduate will overshadow all the comments on educational trends. That item reveals indirectly that the House Dining Halls made a large profit last year and that a portion of it, --$40,000.,--was used to finance the measure which gave relief jobs to needy undergraduates. The news will come as a distinct surprise to men who have shared two apparently fallacious beliefs which the administration has made no effort...
Unique, the situation offering the possibility of a stamp-collecting President might well overshadow seemingly more important vote-deciding qualifications in the philatelic mind...
...time, to such an extent, perhaps, that many people educated to the Stadium overlook the distinct pleasures of forming the gallery that fringes an unobtrusive football game, and of shouting to Joe and Bill. For the greatest number of people, the thousands of spectators of the present day game overshadow the sport atmosphere that really is an underlying aim of the whole thing. In the gymnasiums we see with amusement the pictures of some intersectional clash of the nineties, with a handful of people cheering the boys on, helping to bathe Battling Joe's blackened eye, and from time...
Kentucky's Joseph E. Robinson: For the party to sponsor the 18th Amendment or its modification would overshadow all other issues and probably defeat our party. . . . There can be no settlement of the Prohibition question. It is a never-ending controversy. I do not favor a declaration...
Like the valet, the students do not see the many excellent qualities of their school, which outsiders recognize and appreciate. Perhaps because of the years of tradition, such New England universities as Harvard and Yale are apt to overshadow a younger school like Boston University and warp the student's outlook on the excellencies of this institution...