Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Pearl Harbor all hell broke loose. Aside from a start on four "shadow plants," the U.S. had 25,000 tons a year of privately financed synthetic capacity (all specialty rubbers like neoprene). This was about the tonnage that Germany had when she entered the war in 1939, and it was pretty good for private industry, considering the cost, but for the U.S. at war it was rubber starvation. Congress and the people began to howl...
...shall live in the shadow of Quebec forever...
...Germans tore a 50-mile gap in the south end of the Don River front Sunday and swept ahead more than 30 miles, to within 200 miles of the Volgs, lengthening the shadow of isolation over the Cancasus oil lands to the south...
Well, that's about what we civilians expect, but that word "positively" sounds a little too positive to me. You remind me of the fellow who once proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that a ship would never be able to propel itself across the Atlantic with steam because it would require more fuel than the ship could carry. He proved it with actual, unassailable figures. Positively...
Across the Charles River is the Business School. Here also in the shadow of the stadium, are the Dillon Field House, and the Carey and Briggs Cages. Nearby are tennis courts, soccer, football, lacrosse, and baseball fields, as well as the Field Artillery Stables and Newell Boat House...