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Word: glared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the hot glare of lights in the RCA-NBC television studios in Manhattan, Heavyweight Boxers Lou Nova and Patsy Perroni one afternoon in April stepped through an exhibition bout that was mostly light lefts and sweat. When it was over, Referee Arthur Donovan eyed the array of television gadgetry around him, then turned and faced the television camera. Said he, with a sweep of his arm: "I wish dis t'ing luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Television Luck | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Slickly engineered, with a minimum of turns and steep grades, the twin three-lane strips of the Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Hitler Hobby | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

There's the rest of the team, too--Torbie and Tom and Joe and Bill and a score of others who are vital cogs and who will continue to shine on next year's eleven. Behind the spotlight glare, there're the coaches, the managers, the scrubs, the trainers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

There is a lighting system in Boylston Reading Room which is only equalled by Widener in the amount of eye-strain and glare it produces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROUCH | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Last week Broker Ferebee made good his boast (and incidentally won from Broker Tuerk $9,000 earmarked for paying off the mortgage on the plantation). On the home green of Long Island's Salisbury Country Club at 10:30 one evening, under the eerie glare of magnesium flares, Golfer Ferebee completed his two-a-day transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf Marathoners | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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