Word: overshadowing
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...just as the disrepute of Oilman Sinclair and friends momentarily overshadowed that of Mr. Fall, so, last week, did the disrepute of yet other "villains" in the story overshadow "the villainy" of Oilman Sinclair and friends...
...University of Nebraska was threatening to take Dean Pound from the Harvard Law School. President Lowell had made a stirring announcement about Harvard's eating arrangements. Leland Stanford's debating team was coming to Cambridge for a debate on Science. But none of these events could overshadow the fact that after all these years "Copey" had at last published his anthology...
...University of Nebraska was threatening to take Dean Pound from the Harvard Law School. President Lowell had made a stirring announcement about Harvard's eating arrangements. Leland Stanford's debating team was coming to Cambridge for a debate on Science. But none of these events could overshadow the fact that, after all these years, "Copey" had at last published his anthology...
...free lance pulpit in "some metropolitan city" where he can reach 3,000 at a time. He loves to preach. He will have no business notices at his meetings, "no joinings, no subscribing, no creeds." Said he: "The stage cannot supplant the pulpit and the newspaper cannot permanently overshadow it. The authority of the human voice, in its appeal to conscience, cannot be eliminated and must not be ignored...
...first time in N. E. A. history, the delegates took official cognizance of sport as a factor of modern education. They affirmed their faith in competitive athletics, their conviction that it must not overshadow scholastics...