Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Some have been eliminated entirely while others have of necessity been confined to the summer or fall or spring semesters. But the green-bound pages, in more optimistic aspect, furnish concrete evidence that too many tears have been shed prematurely over the bier of Harvard's liberal tradition. Courses in the humanities still abound, with even unlooked-for additions...
Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles...
...George Mortimer Pullman built his first railroad sleeping car so wide that it could not clear the platforms of the old train shed where Chicago's Union Station now stands. Long since, the Pullman corporations had become so widespread that competitors could not get past them...
Over these basic questions, which the Truman Committee, on behalf of all American citizens, had hoped would be solved two years ago, the committee still sweated, glowed and tried to shed light...
Success In Snow. What a young Russian general (Filip Ivanovich Golikov) accomplished on a limited Russian sector (Kursk) as the week opened seemed at first to be another wonderful but local success. Actually the way Kursk was captured and the consequences of its fall shed much light on Russian potentialities...