Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground. He quoted Fite's History of the U. S. and Greene's Foundations of American Nationality which call Oglethorpe's colonists "the King's poverty-stricken subjects." and "poor but honest debtors." Said he: "I have never cared to enter controversies. . . . There was no shadow of an idea in my mind of casting any aspersions on the people of Georgia. . . . It is a just manifestation of local pride that the Savannah Board of Education should protest...
...have. And so have several private practitioners in Tampa. So have others in numerous Florida and nearby Georgia cities. Anyone giving even cursory attention to the daily papers has often seen reports of children's lives being saved by this instrument at Florida hospitals. There is thus no shadow of excuse for the Orlando doctor's misinformation...
...They acknowledge they have lost, the substance grasping at the shadow...
...Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps the Vagabond climbed, dimly conscious that he had tasted a life and a time foreign to the ordered scholasticism of this place...
Since control of these three most vital departments of government would continue "reserved" to Great Britain, the Prime Minister offered to the First Conference last January and to the Second Conference last week only the merest shadow of independence for India. Plausibly enough he argued that since the Hindu and Moslem delegates to the Second Conference have been unable to agree, even with each other, upon the proportion of Hindu and Moslem representation in the future Indian Parliament, they must all go back to India and keep on trying to thrash out these and other details among themselves...