Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles veterinarian and a taxidermist drove out one day last week to the San Fernando Valley ranch of the late Tom Mix, walked into a shed where the most famous horse since Pegasus stood in the mildness of his last few moments alive. The horse was Tony, who was a scrawny yearling following a vegetable wagon around a small town in Arizona when Tom Mix gave $12.50 for him. In the years that followed, Tony became the valiant central symbol of a cinematic age of innocence, the hero of millions of small boys and some of the best juveniles ever...
...week the Germans were trying to advance in two directions through the Caucasus. One force, striking toward Grozny and the Caspian, had been stalled for the past two months on the Terek River, which German broadcasts described as "the accursed stream where so much German blood has already been shed." Another spearhead had moved from captured Novorossiisk toward the great oil port of Batum. It did not get far before the Russians counterattacked...
...decided at first that it would be easier to slip from corner to corner, to steal a jacket from a gardener's shed, a cloak from a blind man, to lie hidden in a nearby cathedral "under the eyes of six arch-chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire...
Some suspicion on Dean Buck's comment that this class "contains more potential ability" than any other, was shed by the fact that it took fully one-half hour for the fleetest of the Freshmen, Herbert M. Cohen, of Lawrence, to thread his way through the rigmarole of enrollment and earn his free copy of the CRIMSON. Apologies for the generally leisurely progress of the Yardlings were made by the registrars, who nevertheless admitted that the procedure was somewhat more complicated than usual...
Blinking at the unaccustomed educational aura shed by the very walls of Harvard's austere Widener Library, several chic reporters and photographers from the magazine "Glamour" recently set up a station in one of the library corridors with the assignment of drawing a Harvard man into conversation with one of the scintillating models and then snapping the picture...