Word: gleamingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Serapia did the trick: after reading her sad story, the children clamored to be vaccinated. Dr. Glusker, a gleam in his eye, went on to write a whole series of stories called Fabulas para Pedro (Fables for Pedro), a little boy who rarely passes up a chance to plug Dr. Glusker's hospital...
...Silver may be a postwar threat to the tin can. It resists the corrosive and bacterial action of food better than tin; if experiments with an electroplating process for making silver linings are successful, silver may soon compete with tin in cost. These and other silvery possibilities gleam in metallurgical eyes. But silver is a die-hard political issue. Chief obstacle to plans to put U.S. silver to work is the artificially high price (71.1? an oz. v. 35? in the open world market) fixed by Congress under the influence of the silver bloc...
...slip of excitement caused by the visit of Major General Sherman Miles gradually died away this week, in the gleam of waxed floors and polished brass doorknobs remained in the rooms of Leverett House to meet the color inspections of the company commander...
...cute brunette. You ask her to dance. She accepts with a charming smile and a "lasso" gleam. Now try to get rid of her for that terrific blonde who just walked in. See what I mean? It's a little more difficult than Radar, isn't it? There, you can always turn the dial or something--but now you'se stuck. Congress says...
...none of these things have progressed beyond the gleam-in-the-eye stage, and the above isn't even at attempt at a blueprint. It's simply what might happen if things work out nicely. No one has had time to do any real planning yet, because of the press of other duties, but two weeks time should see a good deal settled, or at least on that blueprint stage. At the end of his week, the V-12ers will have been classified as a result of the physical fitness test they will have taken, and that program will...