Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schedule, especially in the last twenty-five years. Many cases, as Mr. Roosevelt points out have been refused review by the court. But writs of certiori have never been denied because the calendar forbade: cases have been turned down only because the court could see no probable or possible shadow of doubt in the decisions of the circuit courts of appeal. Yet these very appeal courts, which eliminate much of the work the Supreme Court would otherwise have to look after, Mr. Roosevelt would remove from the course of important cases, in his misdi-rected efforts to gain a more...
...Museum's studies in the X-ray and in Technical Research were presented to the public, for the first time, by paintings together with their X-ray shadow-graphs, also X-ray studies of forgery, repaint and restoration; paintings in different techniques, and cases of pigments used in different countries and periods...
People began to arrive in the late afternoon. Long before 8 p. m. they had packed the main hall of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to overflowing, were huddling on stairs, pressing into small rooms and remote galleries. Thousands sat in the shadow of suits of mail, under priceless canvases, close to marble sculptures. Thousands could not see the musicians' stand, yet all 15,000, one of the biggest indoor concert audiences ever assembled, applauded deafeningly when a slim, silver-haired old man walked on to begin conducting his twentieth series of eight free Saturday performances...
...Winthrop House petitioning Lehman Hall to restore their former janitor to his accustomed beat, the recent shake-up of the college's night watch has catapulted into public notice. For what might seem to the administration merely a routine shift of duties for the staff has cast its shadow over the everyday life of the whole college...
Emerging bravely from that shadow is the latest novel by Professor Vercel, whose Captain Conan in 1934 received the Prix Goncourt. Written in lean, brilliant prose, Salvage rises to a sustained pitch of excitement in telling of the rescue of a Greek cargo steamer by the salvage tug Cyclone, fades again when the rescue is completed midway in the book...