Word: overshadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to overshadow the Varsity football game with New Hampshire, two teams of employees from Widener Library will tangle on the House football field this afternoon at 2:15 o'clock...
Sendak will attempt to overshadow his feminine competitor by displaying his entire repertoire of tricks, including a difficult triple flip, before the game...
Turnesa was never able to overshadow his opposition in the same fashion that Graves did Saturday...
Germany would then be on the Channel and nearer to England. The Belgian Maginot Line might be outflanked. If, however, Herr Hitler is thinking of the disadvantages of a Netherlands coup, they would overshadow the advantages. There would be 230 more miles of western frontier to defend. The Belgians have heavily fortified their frontier with The Netherlands, and invasion through The Netherlands to the ultimate goal of France and Paris is a circuitous route to take...
Only once in The Old Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly...