Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new . . . −Ode on a Grecian...
...just a slit, directly behind the eye. When you're shooting from the side, that's the target . . . His brain is right under . . . Crocodile tears? . . . After I've shot them I've found tear stains down their cheeks. It's my theory they shed them when straining to open their mouths wider for a big chunk of meat...
...confusing mixture of a 30-year-old artillery building and a bright shiny 1953 addition, Dunbar houses Harvard's experiments in geophysics, particularly the work of Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology. Originally Dunbar was used as an artillery shed during the first world war; since then it has been deeded over to science, and outdated relics of the militia have been replaced by high-powered compression machines as Birch and his small staff delve into the problems of the earth's inner composition...
...grateful people had spent $12 million and labored nine years to build their tribute to the dictator who modernized his ancient land and bequeathed it democracy (TIME, Oct. 12). An elderly officer standing by spoke quietly to a friend: "I was on active duty during his funeral, when I shed bitter tears at the finality of death. Today I am not sad, for 15 years have taught me that Ataturk will never...
...worst curse of modern education is understanding a student's capabilities," he states. "Great books courses are superficial for they don't teach students to criticize. Old books aren't important as old books but for the light they shed on future years...