Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...semi-mass production basis (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). They used a huge earth-moving machine to root out foundations, a concrete mixer to move from site to site pouring concrete slabs for house bases (no basements). In 1946 they finished 1,000 homes, sold them to veterans for a shade under...
Tevye and his troubles are at the center of Sholom Aleichem's classic Yiddish tales, which in the past half century have become an integral part of Jewish folk life. Some have been translated into English in Tevye's Daughters-though with only a shade of the ironic, shoulder-shrugging spirit of the original...
Punch now sells 176,000 copies a week, higher than prewar but a shade under the 1947 record of 184,000. Any change Bird makes will be gradual; he doesn't want to lose an old reader to gain a new one. He brushes off inquiries about his plans: "Nothing is ever planned on Punch'' he chuckles. "It just happens...
...rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five...
...Republican Party should become a party of conservatives, would it ever win another election? Dewey's popular vote was only a shade larger than Herbert Hoover's, despite the fact that a whole generation of voters had grown up since 1928. But in the opinion of Ohio's Bob Taft (who was vacationing in Rome), the Republicans had only to hang on. Said Taft: "[The party] should present a constructive program . . . opposing every unnecessary addition to the totalitarian powers of the federal government. The fallacies and dangers of the Administration's economic and control policies will...