Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only under the despotism of a dictatorship does everybody or nobody vote. Normally, a shade more than 50% of the U. S. citizenry exercises its suffrage privilege. Even in the presidential landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...
...highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest passenger planes. To California William Randolph Hearst brings Old World treasures by the carload...
...Bishop of Alicante, Spain, permission was given the men to wear their hats, the clergy their birettas. Since the women had been ordered to wear dark dresses and mantillas, the only relief that could be suggested was for them to move from their sunny benches into the shade. Few did, and during the mass 500 women...
...full life that she makes friends with a window-cleaner and rents a furnished apartment in which to entertain him and his friends; 2) listening to Dick Powell sing. She meets these demands effectively. The impression she gives audiences is that of Janet Gaynor with a brain. A shade more memorable than either the Hutchinson performance...
...Wind is in no sense a great book but it is a convincingly naive memoir, thickly padded with unpublished Lawrence letters, that most Lawrentians will want to read. And, having read it, even Lawrentians may heed the mute nunc dimittis of their master's shade...