Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister Aranha carried out his intention, he could have added a wreath to the statue last week. It was the sinister shadow of Adolf Hitler hovering over South America that inspired the U. S. Government to open its purse strings for a fat loan to help Brazil develop her steel industry...
Last week with only the shadow of Germany protecting the colonies of defeated France, this storm of Chinese wrath was turned on the whole Western world. For three years, Chinese reasoned, one of the important aims of their fight had been to keep the Orient open to the white man. At any moment China might have had peace by abandoning him and joining the Japanese New Order in Asia. Yet China fought on. In return the Western democracies had helped China considerably, but first through witlessness and later through helplessness had done considerably more to smooth the path of Japan...
...President emphasized that "in its three hundred year existence Harvard has witnessed many drastic moments in the history of western culture, but the present college year opens under a shadow of a threat never before present. War is not the worst possiblity we face; the worst is the complete triumph of totalitarianism, and at this moment it is sufficiently real to warrant every man's most earnest consideration...
London's animals lived as the people lived. Dogs & cats slept in shelters with their masters. Women rescued pups & kittens from bomb holes. A litter of rabbits was born in one hole, in the shadow of a delayed-action bomb. Many wild birds were killed. On one balcony were found a score of dead sparrows, huddled together with two mice in their midst...
...good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself. Purpose: to help the dentist recreate the patient's facial expression as nearly as possible. Besides photography, several other techniques are in use. One is to make shadow records of the profile ; another is to take facial measurements with an instrument called the dento-profile scale; another is "facial moulage," a life mask...