Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former No. 1 French Publisher Jean Prouvost, all that remains is a one-page shadow of the once-great Paris-soir. His picture weekly, Match, once ranking as the French LIFE with a circulation of 2,500,000, has been taken over by the Germans, published as an "ersatz" called La Semaine. Seized also was his Marie-Claire (French Ladies' Home Journal, with circulation of 1,250,000), and supplanted by a Nazi rag called Pour Elle...
...next November the training rate will have hit 12,000 a year and the Army will have plenty of schools (seven fields for intermediate training, eleven for advanced) to finish off the work. But big as the training program was, it had been dwarfed by the huge shadow of war ahead. On April 3, Johnny Johnson got a new program-a production of 30,000 trained military pilots a year...
...Conrad Buchwald '41, of Leverett House and Hollywood, California it was learned last night has received fifth prize for his article, "Neutrality; Shadow and Substance," in The New Republic's Annual Writing Contest for college undergraduates...
Fortnight before, Hitler's "shadow"-the young World War I infantryman and Air Force pilot who had got caught in the 1923 Munich beer-hall Putsch and had gone to jail with Hitler and had helped him write Mein Kampf in prison-had traveled to Augsburg and decorated Willy Messerschmitt at the Messerschmitt aircraft factory for services to the Fatherland. Three days later Hess had sat on the dais of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, arms folded and beetle-brows lowered, while his frenzied colleague of 21 hard years of struggle had crowed over the victory...
...terrified to see the Anderson structure approaching at a rapid speed, broke her rudder in avoiding it. Assistance was plentiful and the damage was soon remedied. Further confusion resulted when an eight and a single, neither one intent on their own rowing, side-swiped each other in the shadow of the bridge and the boat continued merrily...