Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smell of gasoline had been like perfume. He was born a tinker, not a farmer, which was what his farmer father had wanted him to be. He was also born stubborn, so he quit the farm and ended up tinkering with a gasoline contraption in a red brick shed back of his house in Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years later, aged 40, he organized...
...legs, and other signs of spring in the Yard, Coach Bob Maddux's Varsity lacrosse team emerged from the gloom of Briggs Cage yesterday into their more natural surroundings on the Business School athletic field. The afternoon sun which covered the field did not extend so far as to shed excessive light on Crimson prospects. Aside from the general feeling among Maddux and his men that this year's team is sure to be superior to the wartime aggregation of last spring, the crystal ball remains definitely clouded...
...impressed his contemporaries that they named Toynbee Hall, first of London's East End social settlements, in his honor. Toynbee's father was a social worker. Toynbee's mother was one of the first British women to receive a college degree.* The Golden Age shed its westering light over young Toynbee in the guise of a thorough classical training at Balliol, the most intellectual of Oxford's colleges...
Interrogation of Harmon's roommates in Leverett House yesterday could shed no light on this "crucial" problem. Even before his sudden departure from College last December 7, they said that he was "a retiring, soft-spoken follow," and that they could recall nothing about...
...Moscow note took the position that United States, control would be entirely fair because the blood shed in evicting the Japanese was largely American...