Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That it is less easy to concentrate when the mercury hits 100 degrees in the shade than at mid-years, when the wind whistles through mackinaws and woolen hockey tights no one will deny. But at the same time much real studying can be done on even the hottest of days. One had only to step into the coolest spot in Cambridge,-- Widener Reading Room,--yesterday to prove that this quite staggeringly hopeful fact is true...
...work in the dashes. In the Tech. meet, he was a double winner, scoring firsts in both the 100 and 220-yard dashes. In that meet, he ran the longer distance in the unusually fast time of 22.1 seconds, and his time for the shorter dash is just a shade above ten seconds flat...
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining the proper Chinese dye, the shade gradually degenerated to magenta. For some years the college paper was called the "Magenta." Finally, however, the authorities revived the original shade and made it the official University color. The name of the paper was then changed to the "CRIMSON...
Senator Lodge declared his position several days ago in these words. The prominence given them in the newspapers of every section and of every shade of political opinion is, as we believe, eloquent of the national sympathy evoked by such a sane and strongly American declaration. For ours, after all, is a government by discussion, not a government by ukase; a government of delegated powers, not a government by divine right; a government of three separate branches, not a government of absolutism. Here the people are citizens, not subjects; their chosen leaders are their servants, not their masters. Here...
...interesting as it is important in battle. Before I came over I had never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed in all things generally. Gas, with its terrifying results, trench mortars, automatic rifles, grenades, bayonets, wire entanglements, trenches, communication systems, aeroplanes,--what not? All have men who speak of nothing save them. War is even...