Word: shade
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...offices in Boston-colonial offices, exquisitely furnished-he appears, quiet, forceful, softspoken, a country gentleman, perhaps, receiving a caller in his study. I suppose many people think of him as a decided conservative, and of his publication as of the same shade of opinion. Not so. You have only to talk to Bostonians nourished in the elder tradition to find that they actually consider The Atlantic Monthly radical. Liberal, it assuredly is, and tuned to the latest thought; more liberal politically and culturally than it is in regard to literature. Yet it has often published matter of a startlingly controversial...
...motion pictures from one room to the next. His achievement has the honor of priority, since he was sending both radio and wire pictures two years ago. His apparatus employs optical means, impressing the photographs point by point upon a light-sensitive cell. This cell changes the light and shade variations into telephone or radio current waves. His device differs from the Belin and from the Telephone Company machines...
...body of Signora Eleanora Duse, famed Italian tragedienne, was laid in its final resting place under the shade of the cypress trees in the little cemetery at Asola. It was there that the actress wished to be buried...
...seven innings the contest was a pitcher's battle between Lane and Nagh, with the latter having a shade the best of it. Harvard was a head 2 to 1 in the eighth, when Nash waited completely. Five hits and costly errors by Donaldaon and Maher gave Huntington four runs and a 5 to 2 lead...
...Century Co. has a postcard received from Major and Mrs. E. Alexander Powell, now in Northern Africa, posted at Hellville, Island of Nossi Be, Madagascar. Under its supercription is the note, "120 in the shade;" on the reverse side is a photograph of some twenty or more white-clad, topi-topped backs along a verandan railing, the owners facing a door-the caption is: "Waiting for the bar to open". And the message...