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Word: overshadowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that March day in 1867 when the British Parliament created a confederated Canada, Britain's Lord Carnarvon had cried: "We are laying the foundation of a great state-perhaps one which at a future date may even overshadow this country." That polite nothing was now a something which, in some senses, had already begun to come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Preventive Medicine | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Atomic weapons will overshadow peacetime uses of atomic energy, at least until the world is confident that it has atomic weapons under control. Materials used in atomic-energy plants could easily be converted into bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: TWELVE POINTS | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Hardly another "Oklahoma!", "Sing Out, Sweet Land!" is a handsome, spirited, and highly appealing production in its own right. Walter Kerr's idea is a winning one and two acts of second-rate script writing cannot overshadow the warm American tone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...world crisis began to overshadow all else in the Russian mind. For the key job in the Foreign Commissariat, Stalin picked his top trouble shooter, Molotov. This was more than a change of faces in Narkomindel (Foreign Office). It was an about-face in Russian policy, from collective security to the two-fisted stand urged by Molotov and his fellow advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Hammer | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Britain, until now the main base of the air offensive against Germany, may soon be a secondary base. North Africa, Sicily, Italy will soon loom large in strategic bombing of Germany, and they may well overshadow Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: End of a Cycle | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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