Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be decided in today's match which will have a bearing on how well the Crimson team will be able to do in the Yale meet and the Easterns that follow it by two weeks, because the last two defeats suffered by the team have thrown a temporary shadow over optimistic predictions...
...tired of wars. It was largely as an expression of this feeling that in 1934 four Balkan nations-Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania-formed the Balkan Entente. The Entente's simple, appealing slogan: "The Balkans for the Balkanese." At first it attracted little attention. But as the Nazi shadow lengthened over Europe, as Hitler crushed the French-backed Little Entente (Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), as the Great Powers began to bid more strongly for alliances, secret understandings, greater trade, the Balkan Entente became a matter of gravest international concern...
...ghost of financial stagnation first cast its shadow over Harvard in the first years of the Thirties. Since then the depreciation of its capital holdings and a steadily falling interest rate have curtailed its income seriously, as it has that of all investors; its primary concern has become conservation rather than expansion. This shrinkage has of course been a world-wide process, affecting not only universities, but business and government, in fact, the entire economic structure. Still, endowments continued to trickle in, and in the course of New Deal recovery even rose of half the pre-depression figure...
Gawky, cadaverous Sinclair Lewis, rehearsing his third stage role, as the canon in Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance, overrode the veto of his technical adviser, the Rev. Edward Murphy, performed in a redlined, red-piped cape (correct for monsignors) on the ground of "good theatre...
...good entertainment, no good serious drama, much bad playwrighting. Last week the casualties were heavy. First, English Playwright J. B. Priestley went to the block for When We Are Married, a stale joke protracted into a three-act play. Next, Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, after distinguishing himself with Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, mounted the scaffold for Kindred, a turgid work neither poetic nor rational. Finally, U. S. Playwright Gustav Eckstein was garroted for Christmas Eve, a confused tale of family life featuring (to no avail) a childbirth on stage...