Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wistful tones of a highly pitched voice drifted lightly through the autumnal silence of the night. A solitary figure patrolling with all the apathy of an Apted aide-de-camp in the shade of the Kirkland House quadrangle stopped suddenly alert to the alien tones that at this hour of darkness had no right, according to all the parietal rules, to issue forth from within the monastic confines of the ivy-clad Georgian depths. In a glance his trained eye had the situation in hand and his other eye began to comprehend and follow uncertain but trusting the leadership...
...back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat in the shade. With a scream Candido Roig Roura pulled the espada from his chest and hurled it away. It landed in the lap of a sports reporter busily writing at the barrier, cut both his legs to the bone. Before Candido Roig Roura died, the great Belmonte had taken another sword from...
...ships now abuilding, the U. S. ranks ninth with 27,000 tons, just a shade ahead of Spain.* Fortnight ago, there arrived in Manhattan 88 blooded cows, bulls and heifers from the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Said the American Merchant Line: "The demand for space for highclass horses and cattle has returned almost to normal. The owners of breeding farms are buying again, which is always a good sign...
...nation first heard the radio blackface comic strip team of Amos and Andy. Amos (Freeman F. Gosden), the patient and long-suffering one, was discovered plaintively complaining about having to do all the work on their Georgia farm while dumb, blustering Andy (Charles J. Correll) loafed under a shade tree. Amos and Andy soon went north to Chicago to find work...
...varsity had won their races. At the start, Harvard's stroke, Sam Drury Jr., strapping big son of the strapping big headmaster of St. Paul's School, got his beat up to 37, splashed out to a lead of three quarters of a length. Yale, pulling a shade slower, crept up. The shells were even at the half-mile mark. At the mile, Yale was a third of a length ahead. The crews settled down into the rhythm of the race with Yale, smoothly stroked by Johnny Jackson, clearing its puddles by six feet at 30 strokes...