Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blocks away from the Manhattan theatre housing his Design For Living, last week a cinemansion was packing in well-bred audiences who seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade, his episodic pageant of empire not yet legitimately staged in the U, S. Further down the street the shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went last year-with the possible exception of the Brazilian jungles-during an enviably carefree junket, he could hear...
...Prince Mike of the post-war decade will take his place with the truly great imposters of history. But the shadow that Arcades as Prince Mike in the headlines of today's newspapers will in ages yet to come have to slink in the company of Judas lscariot. Joseph's eleven brothers. Delilah and other wretches who have sold their kin for a handful of silver. Cornell Daily...
...blast-furnace roar of the fire. Reputedly last to leap was Captain René Schoofs of the Atlantique. "Thrice we thought he was dead!" cried an excited junior officer later. "Then suddenly he appeared out of the flames with burning clothes, his Annamite boy following him like a shadow with a bucket...
When the x-rays strike the copper plate they pass through the submicroscopic lattice which the copper atoms form, cast a fencelike shadow upon the screen. When Dr. Lark-Horovitz adds energy to the copper plate by heating it, electrons jump from one energy level to another in the copper atoms, and the "pickets" in the x-ray picture shift a perceptible distance. Dr. Lark-Horovitz calculates the intra-atomic movements at one 200,000,000th part of an inch...
...session where already a heated Democratic campaign is in progress for the Speakership of the 73rd Congress. The wise eyes of Washington are fixed less upon the routine legislation of this session than upon the adroit pulling and hauling of candidates for Speaker. The Democrat who casts the longest shadow in the 72nd House is most likely to rule over the 73rd. Candidates- Exclusive of ambitious upstarts, three eminent Representatives are in the race-Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, cadaverous chairman of the Appropriations Committee; Alabama's John McDuffie, Democratic "whip" of the House; and Illinois' Henry...