Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century drew to a close, he was comparing British hegemony to the new electric light, which "only throws into deeper shadow the unlighted places." He publicly preached that the British must get out as fast as possible; and, in 1893 he retired to England, believing that he and Annette had not many years to live. Both lived until 1929, long enough to see their elder son become one of England's top social planners. Annette Beveridge was 86 when she died, nearly stone-deaf at the last and vigorously translating Turkish biography. "Perhaps the cleverest lady and the wickedest...
...when the war created space and personnel problems something had to be done. Complete divorce of the two institutions was out of the question: Dean Buck, in a special report to the Faculty in March, 1943, remarked on "the historic fact that Radcliffe has grown up under the shadow of Harvard, and something of a 'scrambled egg' exists. Divorce initiated by Harvard would mean the destruction of Radcliffe as a fist-class college, and I do not quite see how we could justify such a consequence of any action Harvard might take...
...Shadow & Substance. In Sault Sainte Marie, Ont., Herman Finer awoke from a dream that his restaurant was being robbed...
...Ephmen retain substantially the same squad as last season, and have come up with a former All-American attackman, Joe Merriman, to further their cause. If Williams can be said to have a strong point, it is their attack. Coach Maddux has already assigned defense star Bob Forsythe to shadow Merriman, but Merriman is only one third of the Williams front line. It promises to be a busy day for Crimson goalie Dick Bernard...
...Haven educational institution which was to bear his name. He died three years later--but his spirit still lives on today in the school that is his namesake, in Cole Porter sougs, in Nadherny, Jackson, Furse, and Fuche, and in the plaque that commemorates his birthplace in the shadow of the shadow of the Scollay Square subway block...