Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the tiers which stretched away into darkness there was sudden scurry, footsteps and the flare of a match. A great figure huddled in a great coat escaped into the shadow. Another match flared, a shaded flashlight swept the long aisles, and in the half-light a face distorted with fear of discovery shot out of the darkness like some hideous appartion in a nightmare. Suddenly there was a dead silence, and then a muttered "ah." Back in the musty corridors there was a swishing sound and slowly a black object appeared. The figure walked back and forth dragging heavy...
...shadow of the law fell also upon financial advertising. Advertisements of an issue of 63,506 shares of International Mining Corp. common were typical: ''This advertisement appears as a matter of record only* and is under no circumstances to be construed as an offering of these shares, or as a solicitation of an offer to buy. . . . The offering is made only by the prospectus . . . copies of which may be obtained from International Mining Corp. . . . or from its agents. Lehman Brothers." When inquirers telephoned Lehman Brothers to ask for conies of the prospectus, they were told that it would...
Outside, rain poured down in sheets. Despite a seeming cure hemophilia-successively the curse of the Romanovs and the Bourbons-brooded over the match. In haste Father Borel read a brief Latin, service. Swiss police, alarmed by a threatening note that the bridegroom was in "grave danger," guarded every shadow of the church. Almost furtively, as the serv ice ended, the new Count & Countess slipped out, dashed away in a motor car to spend their honeymoon some 30 miles distant at Evian-les-Bains...
...respect therefore the Senate can question only the shadow cast by the banking house founded by two solid commission merchants from Cincinnati, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb-the house reared to greatness by great Jacob Schiff who died...
...light of the bulb is monochromatic, i.e. it glows in but one color. Such light is useful in highway illumination because it reveals the details of objects at low levels of illumination, casts almost no shadow. The yellow glow of the sodium eliminates the offensive glare of white light, and, although the average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places...