Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty committee said the decision to allow women to shed their clothes in a University building was reached "without discussion...
Chances were that no one would ever know. The personal diaries which King kept every day and which might have shed some light on the subject, were ordered destroyed after his death under the terms of Mackenzie King's will...
...come from San Salvador. That island was too far off (about 50 miles) when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with an intensely phosphorescent slime...
...lost in her ill-starred gamble. But it was clear that she had lost a great deal. She had aroused the U.S. to an awareness of its weaknesses and a determination to build up strength. Russia had enabled the U.S. to prove to the whole world that it would shed the blood of its men on foreign soil to defend an ally. Russia had aroused the U.N.-to which its representative had made a degraded and fruitless return after seven months of boycott-to a consciousness of new power and prestige. Russia had showed herself to the troubled peoples...
After five months, prodded by encouragement that she might get the parole which had been so long denied her, Mrs. X began to shed her delusions. She started going downtown with a companion, and was amazed by the newfangled red & green stoplights. Soon she applied for a job and dutifully gave Dr. Mott as her reference. Last October she was paroled and, says Dr. Mott, made "an excellent adjustment" and did "a superb job as a practical nurse and companion housekeeper." Her mental condition kept on getting better. In January she was discharged from the hospital, apparently in excellent mental...