Word: shading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace to the shade of Crusader Magee, and to Reader Tingley. TIME summoned up no cloud...
...most successful in a not unworthy purpose, the addition of a political motive to the traditional religious one for Antigone's acts. Antigone, in the version of Sophocles, was willing to die in order to bury her brother, to save him from the eternal torture which otherwise awaited his shade. In the present interpretation she funds, as the play progresses, other reasons, of equally high principle, why it is essential for her to die rather than compromise...
...January 10 the 38 delegates to the P.C.C., an advisory body representing every shade of the nation's political color chart, had begun their task with cautious hope. Two notable events-a truce in the civil war, a bill of rights proclaimed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek-augured well for their discussions. They debated with dignity and restraint, then sent their main problems to subcommittees for final recommendation. U.S. newsmen reported that the democratic process was genuinely in operation...
...result of showing off to the Littles' cat, Stuart was rolled up in a window shade. The Littles thought he had disappeared down a mousehole (it was an obsession Mrs. Little had). So they got down on all fours "and put their mouths as close as possible to the mousehole. Then they all called: 'Stooooo...
Whatever the answer to the problem may be, let's take a more positive attitude towards College affairs. Proving that the Harvard man is a shade above Joe College requires a little more than a well-tailored lapel. David B. Wilson...