Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First major speaker, Dr. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, warned: "No country, no matter how large, can believe itself safe from disorder, if disorder should spread out over the rest of the world. The shadow of war finds the oceans no barriers. . . ." Last major speaker, Lewis W. Douglas, president, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, warned that continuance of U. S. democracy depends on an Allied victory in Europe, said...
...formulate and say that Tchaikowski wrung sublimity from an anguished soul. But if for no other reason than this must his music be played with the utmost restraint. Music so thoroughly and unashamedly emotional in character can ill afford the lily-gilding to which conductors subject it. Must every shadow of subtlety be dragged out, and nothing at all left to the listener's imagination...
...swooping in fearlessly at 500 feet. French Alpine troops and some of the Foreign Legion arrived, and with them came anti-aircraft guns and artillery. Thus the Allied Army north of Trondheim finally found its poise, gathered itself for an organized drive. But its early stumble cast a shadow over the whole enterprise, a shadow stretching back to London...
...Crimson crews open the season's activity on the Charles River Basin, at the same time, facing M. I. T., Boston University, and Syracuse, with a two-boat margin expected between the men from the shadow of Lars Anderson, and the second place New York Staters. The Jayvee and 150-pound crews battle with their respective rivals from the same schools, while all but the Syracuse Freshmen figure in the Yardling competition...
...contrast to a complete lunar or "umbral" eclipse, when the moon passes through the direct shadow of the earth, this affair is called "penumbral" because the moon merely travels through the outer, partial shadow, just missing the earth's direct shadow by a few minutes...