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...landing runway. An auto-pilot steers them along the ILS (Instrument Landing System) beam. But while they are making their automatic approach, Rube and his copilot keep up a constant chatter on the radio. They sing out when they first spot the ground, report familiar landmarks, announce the first gleam of runway lights. And every word is recorded on the ground...
...Dappled Gleam. Ceramists have long guessed that the purplish Temmoku glazes with distinctive "oil spots" must require a combination of natural clays rich in iron, fused with something like wood ash. If cooled down quickly after baking, such a mixture is shot through with spots or streaks. But while a spotty glaze is the easiest thing in the world to obtain, the Temmoku glaze with a deep, dappled gleam is apparently one of the hardest. The secret of making it has been lost for about 750 years. Experimenting over the past few months with a variety of natural clays...
...spoke, you would have thought a man was talking," said the News. To Daily Mirror reporters her voice was "a lilting, feminine soprano" dropping to "a husky, masculine contralto" as she grew tired. All in all, the sight of Christine in the flesh took some of the anticipatory gleam out of the newsmen's eyes. "Her legs, what could be seen of them, were smooth and trim," said the News. "However, the planes of her face were flat, hard...
...says, "we in America immediately think he is superior. I have visited Rome, Brussels and Paris, and I think our American modern art has more vigor and fire and life to it." How would he go about helping U.S. painters and sculptors? "Ah,." says Father Lauck, with a missionary gleam, "It's a pity not more American artists are doing religious subjects. The sponsor of so much great art in past centuries has been the Church. It could be again...
...beautiful in the English language." The paragraph begins: "The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece...