Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying, Banker Benson taxied to Seattle's Olympic Hotel for the 65th annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, of which he was president. To 2,500 banker delegates he sermonized: "We are meeting in the shadow of another great war. ... We must be prepared for whatever shocks may come...
Last week the Senate's Great Inconsistent strolled daily from his ground-floor office in the Senate Office Building to his bare workroom hideaway in the Capitol, his shadow falling black on the worn paving...
Borah's shadow, and the threat it represented, had caused Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter...
Down in Virginia's cedar-dotted Fort Belvoir, where the U. S. Army runs its only experimental camouflage laboratory, camoufleurs study how to outwit stereopticon, infrared and color photography from airplanes, try to solve such apparently insoluble problems as what to do when tanks are concealed in deep shadow and the sun goes behind a cloud; how to camouflage a truck, when an aerial camera can pick up a tireprint on the grass "almost from the stratosphere." They also experiment with dazzle v. solid color camouflage...
Across the Charles River is the Business School. Here also, in the shadow of the Stadium, are the Dilion Field House, and the Carey and Briggs Cages. Nearby are tennis courts, soccer, football, baseball, and lacrosse fields, and the Newell Boat House...