Word: glared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of the bulb is monochromatic, i.e. it glows in but one color. Such light is useful in highway illumination because it reveals the details of objects at low levels of illumination, casts almost no shadow. The yellow glow of the sodium eliminates the offensive glare of white light, and, although the average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places...
...test of a nation's sense of stability is the manner in which it treats crimes against the state. In Britain month ago a young Highland officer, Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart, was tried for espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been...
Young Tommy Adair is a purebred English bulldog, son of a grand champion. Some day he may know the feel of smooth green carpet under his feet, the glare of arc lights, the eyeing of solemn experts who may award him ribbons and medals for his form, coat, stance, carriage. But already he has won a prize-in Ocean City, N. J. one day last week-simply for being so appallingly, truculently ugly...
...long mahogany table, flicked a red ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added I'm D. A third pen got as far as Roos. A fourth finished the job with evelt and thereby legalized beer...
...last June at Chicago. After the oil investigation had made him a headliner, Washington's Daisy Harriman took him in hand, trimmed his scraggly mustache, made a society lion out of him. But no amount of social attention could diminish his capacity for public indignation or soften the glare of righteousness in his hard blue eyes. As an Attorney General, he is rated faintly radical because he sponsored the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the "Power Trust...