Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the first event took place, a partial eclipse of the moon. It was invisible to the naked eye, because the earth's penumbra (zone of partial shadow) barely nicked the moon's outer edge. There is no "path" in lunar eclipses; when the moon enters the earth's shadow, the effect is visible from the whole hemisphere facing the moon's direction. Two other partial lunar eclipses will occur during 1940: a conspicuous, nearly total one, visible everywhere in the U. S., on April 21; an inconspicuous...
...shadow crew of 378 was signed on "for the run to Southampton," at four quid two and ten (about...
...organization of its economic front Germany so far has a big advantage. She was on a war basis two years ago, partially rationed, regimented, ruled literally from soup to nuts by Four-Year Planner Göring. The Allies' organization has rolled along, too-shadow factories, contraband control, women's industrial mobilization-but not without the grinding of many a gear. With 1,200,000 men in the army, with armament factories booming, Britain still has unemployment. Thus the major question of War II at the half-year mark remained not so much which economy could take...
Externally the three-story frame building at 5 Divinity Avenue which houses the Club and which stands almost in the shadow of the glided Germanic Museum looks much like any Harvard Professor's house...
...shadow of World War I lies heavily over World War II; the shadow of the Peace of 1918 lies heavily over thought of the next, unknown Peace. Throwing a little light into both shadows, the U. S. State Department last week published two volumes of the papers of the late Robert Lansing, wartime Secretary of State...