Word: overshadow
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...spite of these fascinating, fashionable styles in jewelery, the emphasis at the Annex remains essentially conservative and jewels are worn to complement and complete, not overshadow an outfit...
...German rearmament: the conflict between Germany's price for rearming and France's conditions for letting Germany rearm (see FOREIGN NEWS). Technically, Lisbon will be discussing the mechanics of linking NATO with the European Army once an army is formed, but the current troubles over forming it overshadow that...
...away from the Florida sunshine into the blackest cloud of murk that has risen over Washington in many a year. Day after day, revelations of corruption in his Administration are piling up, amid indications that the scandals may grow to outstrip Teapot Dome. In political urgency, the graft scandals overshadow the Korean truce talks and the confused debate over U.S. mobilization...
When reasoning why the Harvard man is so sought after, there is one factor that the merits of the school's educational program should not be allowed to overshadow: the student is supposedly an able man even before he begins his two years on the Charles. For one thing the Admissions Office often prefers older men, who have already had actual work experience. Statistics show that the Class of 1952 averaged between 23 to 24 years of age and included 62% veterans. Although the veteran percentages are fast dipping, the entering Class of 1953 which numbers over 620 students, still...
...universities have not always lived up to that maxim. Under the influence of the Germans, who carried their pursuit of facts for their own sake to the last extreme, the laboratory began to overshadow the classroom, the specialist the student, and the idea that men must become well-rounded human beings before they become specialists was almost forgotten. In a later day, U.S. education fell into the anarchy of free electives, and scattered courses piecemeal before its students to be sampled as their taste or fancy dictated...