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Word: flare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reputedly Hollywood's top-salaried scenarist, Ben Heeht, has turned out both his money's worth and yours in the slick, competent seript of "Notorious." Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant act with a skill that at times flare into brilliance, and the whole thing, being a spy story, is enhanced on end by Alfred Hitchcock's direction...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Movigoer | 12/10/1946 | See Source »

...minutes later they knew that the plane would never cross the ocean. On a 1,600-foot hill, seven miles away, a fire billowed up silently and burned there as brilliantly as a signal flare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Fire on the Hill | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...come along [TIME, Aug. 5] and add the possibility of a flare-up of the sun vaporizing the world. Here, I draw the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Such explosions, Coles says, would not necessarily mean the end of the world. Astronomers are betting on the sun to do that job. They have been made more & more uneasy by the number of novae in the universe - stars which, for some unknown reason, suddenly flare up to thousands of times their normal brilliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Burn | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Burn | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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