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Word: glassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all cars the Derham Brothers turn out, Mr. Whalen's is a synthesis of the automaker's science and the body-builder's art. It seats nine people comfortably (aside from any on the top), is equipped with fog lights, radio, streamlined glass wind-wings, many another luxury, including extra-depth cushions for Fair visitors who may be as tender as they are distinguished. It contains $1,850 worth of chassis and engine, $5,150 worth of body and design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Expensive Bodies | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...notes the pine tree growing in granite near Buford, Wyo.-in the early days of the Union Pacific, railroad firemen saw the struggling tree, kept it alive by emptying buckets of water on it as the trains passed. It retells the story of Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Highway | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Light from blue-&-red stained-glass windows shone on a flower-banked altar. A yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes-coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies-deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Show | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Before making the picture, Producer Goldwyn, a stickler for detail, landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...highway. Until recently it has been a ticklish and costly job to get the sodium into the highly evacuated lamps without contamination. Last week General Electric Co.'s laboratories at Schenectady announced a clever new way of filling the bulbs. The sodium is packaged in tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp and the broken capsule is reduced to a harmless pinch of powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lamp Trick | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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