Word: overshadowment
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...unfortunate that so many students in the University know Delmar Leighton only as the Master of Dudley House, for his recent efforts on behalf of the neglected commuters have tended to overshadow his previous contributions as Dean of Freshmen and Dean of the College. His readiness to defend the rights of any student in the University has made him one of the most significant figures in the struggle to build the framework of freedom which is now taken for granted in the University...
...colorful, fanciful, decorative and fairly experimental. He frequently interweaves subject with enveloping background, and also interweaves various techniques: for example he will, sketch an imprecise background and subject base of splashy color and etch or pen his subject into it. Although there is a slight tendency for technique to overshadow insight, Mr. DeShong's production is certainly most pleasant...
Growing concern for international affairs did not overshadow undergraduate interest in domestic politics. A University-wide poll sought opinion on the race for the governorship of Massachusetts and on the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. Harvard upheld one of its sons but condemned another, backing Gaspar G. Bacon '08 by a 7-1 margin over Mayor Curley (who subsequently won) and completely reversing a former pro-Roosevelt stand. The turnabout on the New Deal, many said, was long overdue; for the College should never have drifted away from its traditionally staunch, Republican stand. Cambridge was, after all, not really...
...longshoreman's body," he was no scholar but he enjoyed the big-time competition for campus prestige, certain that his talents would be recognized. But throughout his life, there was always a Hobey Baker (Princeton's famed halfback and hockey star) or a Hemingway to overshadow him. In his own mind, life became a struggle for recognition. It was a struggle that he largely lost...
...Already there is evidence that the problems of the world as a total are beginning to overshadow the personal problems of the individual. People are now asking: What is the future of human civilization? What is the meaning of God's presence in a world such as this?" With this rediscovery of man's larger problems, Dr. Freehof argues, "personal guidance can no longer remain the overwhelming concern of the minister. Public influence again becomes his duty. As that is increasingly realized, the pulpit as an instrument of public influence will be revalued once more...