Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistants in April 1935. Total cost: about $4,000, an astonishingly small sum for so large a work. Major General William Durward Connor, Superintendent at West Point, gave the artists plenty of advice on military matters, successfully requested that Napoleon be painted standing so that Wellington did not overshadow him. Like their commander, the cadets made numerous suggestions, once left for Artist Johnson this note...
...severance of Harvard-Yale boxing relations, the Yale News shows itself unwilling to face the unpleasant state of affairs' as it actually exists. It is all very well to talk of the immemorial relations of the two universities on the field of sport, but this is not enough to overshadow the injustice done Harvard on March...
...Poling was 51, just beginning to grey. Since he is no Baptist, the congregation of Grace Temple expected him to make less use of their 60-foot marble immersion tank where white carnations are kept floating during baptismal services. Dr. Poling will probably omit flowers, allow a microphone to overshadow the tank...
...Hutton deplored "minority pressure groups" but saw no alternative except the formation of another. What was more, "business and industry can have a lobby which will overshadow them all. Why don't we organize it and come to the help of any part of business & industry when that help is needed? Why not create an American Federation of Business?" To rally his forces Mr. Hutton cried: "So I say: 'Let's gang...
President Lewis' personal triumph at the Shoreham Hotel last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had jacked U. M. W. out of disintegration and despair, energized it into the greatest single affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. He was the prime embodiment of Labor resurgent under the New Deal. As such he was prepared to stride into the A. F. of L. convention this week...