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Word: gleams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gleam. In Springfield, Ill., Policeman George Ford was bothered by bees swarming at the busiest corner in town. Then a young woman gave him her mirror and a method. He sent a flash into the swarm, swung it to a nearby wall. The bees followed the gleam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...this point one of the secretaries from Cruft went by. The man broke out his song and pursued the secretary with a baleful gleam in his eye. The two rounded the corner on the dead run; the secretary leading by a wave-length. He didn't see the finish, but there is no doubt that radio has a strange and sinister effect...

Author: By Ensign H. S. bailey, | Title: ELECTRONICS SCHOOL | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

Boss's Blueprint. By week's end Jimmy Byrnes had determined on a six-point program. Some points were a matter of record, others just a gleam in his shrewd blue eyes. Together, they presaged the most drastic Federal action yet taken to untangle the home-front snarl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Gets Going | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

When God made the Southern woman . . . He wrought with the gold and gleam of the stars, with the changing colors of the rainbow's hues and the pallid silver of the moon. He wrought with the crimson that swooned in the rose's ruby heart, and the snow that gleams on the lily's petals. Then glancing down into His own bosom He took of the love that gleamed there like pearls beneath the sun-kissed waves of the summer sea, and thrilling this love into the form He had fashioned, all heaven veiled its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love, Eh? | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Moatsie stayed in Moscow, but for two weeks "cried [herself] to sleep every night and couldn't keep any food down." Moatsie kept going. Russian women enviously fingered her American corset. "A naughty gleam" came to the eye of a fellow correspondent when Moatsie was shown wounded Russian soldiers lying naked in healing mineral baths, and she cracked: "I am prepared to testify that the Germans aren't hitting below the belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Russia Was Invaded | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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