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Word: gleams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Gleam, with Capt. Stuart Blake up, lost the Military Team Trophy for the Canadians by committing 20½ faults after the rest of the team had made a perfect score. The Polish team, with 2½ faults, won the cup while hundreds of Manhattan's Polish citizenry outyelled their disgruntled Italian and Canadian neighbors in the gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Horse Show | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Having perused editorials in the Boston papers and in the higher purveyors of news in New York City, we feel called to throw a gleam of light upon the all-important question of the brutal attack and "false" imprisonment of the poor boys at the Stadium by Harvard's heartless mercenaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

What had happened was that Dr. Shields, believing he had seen the gleam of Modernism in the eyes of a Des Moines University professor, had asked President Wayman to expel him and six others who seemed to have similar gleams. President Wayman had refused. A meeting of the board of trustees upheld Dr. Shields and his loyal secretary-treasurer. Thereupon Dr. Shields exuberantly expelled everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...gleam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minstrel | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...only place where taste wabbles in this number is in the hymn parodies Nobody yet has made sacrilege funny though all have tried; and while these parodies aren't sacrilegious, they aren't funny either. Otherwise, there is many a gleam of the old Lampy in this number; and there are improvements, tod. It is a very encouraging sign of the times; quite as encouraging, in its own way, as the events of November 24 at Yale Field. Magazines are men, as much as football teams or colleges either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEW FAULTS IN CURRENT LAMPOON, POWEL FINDS | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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