Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NCAA's last year. But if he can't push himself to that speed or better this weekend, he'll be pushed out of competition. Bob Clemens of Illinois, Bob Van Heyde and Bon Ledger of Ohio State, and Mike Delaney from the U. of Michigan can all shade...
Author Williams introduces his hero right in the maternity ward. A calving elephant has an "auntie" or sister elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...
...talk of recession, Wall Street still had a strong answer. Last week the Dow-Jones averages, which had been rising for four weeks, kept bumping against their ceiling in heavy buying. But profit-taking nipped the advances, and the averages ended the week a shade below their high. Utilities set a new high for 22 years and rails were also up, though still a good bit below the 1953 high. Bears could argue that the averages included only 65 stocks, thus were not the best measure of the market's strength. But many stocks not in the averages were...
COTTON textile prices may start upward soon, says W. Ray Bell, president of the Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York, who thinks three years of recession have shaken down the industry to a firm footing. Production forecast for 1954: 10 billion yards of woven goods, just a shade under last year's peacetime record...
...colored glass in turn. Dr. Miles lists their effects. If ordinary daytime vision is 20/20, then visual acuity at night, through clear glass, is cut to 20/32. A popular "night glass" of light yellow reduces visual acuity only to 20/34. But Dr. Miles found that a second popular shade, pink, cut visual acuity to 20/40. Finally, a green windshield reduced nighttime acuity to 20/46, but in combination with the pink glasses, it slashed vision to a deadly 20/60...