Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endorsed it for the last twelve years. How close to reality the party's new declaration would bring legal beer, wine & spirits remained a matter of opinion, dispute, political contest. The fact in hand was that the Chicago convention gave Wets the substance of a change, Drys the shadow of kind words. The party had pulled on rubber boots to pussyfoot its way through the campaign. Whether this was possible or impossible only Election Day would show...
...course, To-Day may be operating under license from you in which case there is no harm done but if not then I feel sure you will be highly flattered at the shadow you have cast in these parts...
Ganymede was in occupation, hidden from U. S. view behind Jupiter. Visible were Callisto, Io and Europa. Europa revolved into occultation. Callisto then proceeded into the planetary shadow where it was eclipsed. Only Io then was visible until Ganymede came out from behind Jupiter. Then Io began its transit across the face of Jupiter whose brightness made the duller satellite invisible, and Ganymede passed into the eclipsing shadow. Then all moonless looked nine-mooned Planet Jupiter...
...these, with the hundred-odd voices of the Glee Club sounding from the steps of Widener, with the professors and the professors' wives, the students and girls from Radcliffe listening under the shadow of the elms, with the sun going down in subdued splendor, and the pigeons fluttering about the columns, the Vagabond detects a freshness and spontaneity which break through the veneer of Harvard indifference. Last night only a slightly chilly wind checked his enthusiasm, and even that did not prevent him from joining the group of carollers on the steps, at the invitation of the impressario. Enthusiasm...
Eventually he went back to Paris, where lived William Butler Yeats, who had praised him as a genius. To Yeats Synge read a play called. "The Shadow of the Glen." This time Yeats confined his praise to a single word: "Euripides!" A year later, when "Riders to the Sea" was written the poet still could find only a single word: "Aeschylus...