Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gleam of light in the darkness of Harvard's athletic record during the Christmas holidays was the impressive victory scored by the Crimson chess team in the recent H. Y. P. D. matches held at New York...
...dark, kill him after they locate the spy to whom he is signaling. All night long they trace the light across the city, killing an engineer, an aviator, a girl, until by morning they have reached the front lines of the fascists, are still feverishly following the gleam when fascist bullets stop their search...
...lighthouses that stand on Thatcher Island, and the lovely shoreline shining in the afternoon sun. He thought of the buoys, charts, and lights, the aids to navigation, that make it possible for modern man to travel on the sea in safety; he thought especially of the first faint, fitful gleam that Columbus glimpsed at San Salvador when he reached these shores, and of the lighthouse soon to be erected in that same spot in the form of a cross to honor the memory of the man who discovered America...
...industry of acidizing oil and gas wells for increased production proved TIME-worthy, is indeed gratifying [TIME, July 12]. Although the article differed from the major facts about as a daguerrotype does from television, your lay readers probably were interested in an industry that was merely a gleam in a chemist's eye five years ago and now grosses $5,000,000 a year. But, it must have been amusing to the oil fraternity, which is thoroughly familiar with acidizing as it is practiced today, and as portrayed in a bibliography of 114 published articles on the subject...
...separate political unit soon after the first gleam of gold appeared in the Klondike rapids of the Yukon River, Yukon is at present administered by a federal government Comptroller and a Territorial Council of three. Yukon's sole representative in the Dominion Parliament since October. 1935 has been Mrs. George Black, a dashing woman who left Chicago to join the gold rush of 1898. She exploded angrily last week when Premier Pattullo announced his acquisition, expressed "surprise" that no statement had been made "either in Parliament or by the Prime Minister...