Word: glared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lopez objects to the high notes of "the rocket's red glare." Would he expect anyone to describe rockets with low notes? . . . He also objects to "land of the free" as being too high. Instead of being too high, it is one of the loveliest climaxes ever written to any song. ... I have been a composer for many years, and have never heard as much as one complaint about the high notes of our National Anthem until Mr. Lopez came along...
...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
Every phenomena in which light and glass are involved will be affected by this discovery. Of primary importance will be its practical application in eliminating 90 percent of headlight glare of oncoming cars. However this can be achieved only when Polaroid is in general use for, in order to be effective the wind shield must be polarized as well as the glass in auto headlamps...
...little to inspire confidence by Mr. Roper's speech. He did not talk like an expert; he scarcely made good sense. He advocated 50-watt bulbs for night driving instead of the present 30-watt bulbs. Immediately any reader of high school intelligence wants to know how blinding glare can be reduced by doubling the illumination. And this very essential point Mr. Roper chose to ignore...
Nightmares limp round Snow White in the gloomy forest. From the bushes, thorns reach crooked hands to tear her; eyes glare from the shadows and bad whispers ride the wind. Snow White is sobbing helplessly when the glaring eyes draw nearer, become friendly. The docile creatures of the wood, wild-eyed because they are as frightened as Snow White, quickly make friends-bush-tailed squirrels and striped chipmunks, birds, horny turtles, and a big-eyed, bangtailed buck. Joyously they lead Snow White to a slovenly little hut they know of. When the dwarfs who own the hut return from their...