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Word: glaze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glaze of Words. Thus, as if she were herself the heroine of a Fannie Hurst novel, she traces her progress from the conventional, middle-class home of her St. Louis childhood to her present, medievally furnished, stained-glass-windowed, triplex apartment in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Purple-Prose Heart | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Master Sergeant Sam Karst, 34, from Greenville, S.C. kept going up. As the altimeter needle circled past the 50,000-ft mark, his eyes began to glaze, and the veins in his neck stood out like rawhide thongs. After 1½ minutes at an empyrean 55,000 ft. (equivalent to as much as 7½ miles above Evans' peak), Karst had had enough. Said he: "I could have stayed up longer, but I knew I was hypoxied,* so I signaled down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Specifications for Space | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...different aerosol products on the market can stop runs in hosiery, smoke bees out of hives, extinguish fires, bandage wounds and deodorize homes, pets or people. Said a Manhattan merchandising expert: "People will buy anything in those fascinating pushbutton cans-even air." Aerosol men agreed. Recently Liquid Glaze, Inc. brought out an aerosol can of compressed gas called Spair, which can inflate a flat tire to 22 Ibs. pressure in six seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: High-Pressure Boom | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...know," he said, "Eskimos are so dull they fascinate me. I guess I never told you about my Epic of Nanook bit this summer, did I?" He began stirring his ice briskly and his eyes brightened with a nostalgic glaze. "You know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Iceman Cometh | 10/15/1957 | See Source »

...shot, then scrawls large obscenities into his notebook under the camera. In Los Angeles, ingenious still photographers-who are on the reporters' side-have found that a stroboscopic light flashed directly into a live camera will usually blind the TV tube momentarily and then throw a ten-minute glaze over the evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Evil Eye | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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