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Word: shadow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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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, baseball, and lacrosse fields, and the Newell Boat House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TOPOGRAPHY ALWAYS BAFFLES FRESHMEN | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...only when set near the ticking of the Balkans' time bomb (see p. 34); Almazán and Avila Camacho staring at each other angrily in Mexico (see p. 39), Smuts and Herzog doing the same in South Africa-these minor cockfights became significant potentials when juxtaposed. The shadow of Russia creeping again on Finland (see p. 39) turned from red to black when superimposed on the shadow of Italy's sharp little foot dancing through North Africa toward the Near East (see p. 27). And the nations' fears, from the mighty U. S. down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ominous Presentiments | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Last week U. S. campuses began to reopen under the shadow of war. Not a few jittery college presidents had feared that defense jobs and impending conscription might induce some students to drop out. Counting their fall enrollments last week, most colleges found them close to normal. An exception was huge University of California, which had 15,342 students, 700 fewer than last year, and blamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Defense & College | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...that shintaisei, whatever form it might take, should be permanent, "rendering possible the pursuance of any policy when necessity arises." If Fumimaro Konoye was to have his way, it looked as if Cabinets might change no more in Tokyo, and the Premiership (or at least the powerful military shadow behind it) might become permanent-hereditary, like the Shogunate and like the Throne. The only man who ever dared say no point-blank to Emperor Hirohito happens to be Fumimaro Konoye. He refused the Imperial Command to form a Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Back to the Shogunate? | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...parents distracted and alarmed by the Shadow and Superman, few radio programs are as welcome as CBS's Let's Pretend. Adapting fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin, Let's Pretend is an unsponsored show. More popular with children than many of its murder & mayhem rivals, it attracts some 1,000 letters weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Let's Pretend | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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