Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frustrated actor with a crew haircut and a name he paid $100 for has been added to the list of comedians who brighten the U.S. breakfast hours. The newcomer is Garry Moore, master of ceremonies of The Show Without a Name (NBC, Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m., E.W.T.). His program marks NBC's first attempt to pick up some of the audience which drinks its coffee with CBS's Arthur Godfrey from 6:30 to 7:45, Blue's Don McNeill from...
Then the lights brighten, the ceiling lifts, the cheerful noise of hammer and saw is heard. The show winds up with photographs of the U.S. trying to make up for lost time, already, in some places, building wartime housing in the pattern of the world of tomorrow -well-planned communities of airy houses, parks, playgrounds, schools...
...their pure form some luminescent pigments glow quite feebly, but they brighten up startlingly when only .0006% of certain metals such as copper are added. Yet if a similar infinitesimal .0006% of iron is also present, the afterglow is dimmed by one-third. Since iron could easily be floating about the laboratories as dust, great care must be taken to guard the purity of the ingredients while they are being compounded in electric furnaces. Result: luminescent pigments are costly-price last week was from $12 to $25 per lb., or $10 to $60 per gallon for paints...
Things began to brighten up for the Yardlings in the eighth when Dean, batting for left-fielder Walt Wilson, pounded out a double to left with one away. Although he advanced to third on Al Evert's sacrifice bunt, he died on base when Ned Fitzgibbons popped out to the short-stop...
...only times the top-hatted, morning-coated little Foreign Minister seemed to brighten were when he talked to men of peace. In Moscow Peaceful Joe Stalin dropped in on Yosuke Matsuoka's interview with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, and Matsuoka glowed. In Rome the Protestant Japanese and the Pope had a long, 65-minute talk. Afterward the Pope told a group of Japanese seminarists that the interview had been "a fine one." Minister Matsuoka called it "the prettiest moment of my life...