Word: gleams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicative of the new team's thinking that the Star's first gleam was timed to coincide with the news-heavy Republican convention-a consideration that would never have moved the old, pink-eyed PM. The paper now has only a puny 90,000 circulation in New York City. About 2,900 of its 125,000 copies go to Philadelphia, and Crum & Barnes want to get 50,000 readers away from Philadelphia's Inquirer and Bulletin...
When Sir Anthony Van Dyck was fighting hangovers to paint 17th Century London society, Washington, D.C. was not yet even a gleam in Architect L'Enfant's eye. This week Washington's National Gallery proudly exhibited "its first full-length portrait from Van Dyck's English period." The portrait, a sparkling evocation of the foppish Duc de Guise, was a New Year's gift from New York Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. That made the 1,019th painting the National Gallery has been given since it opened its doors in 1941 (it has only found...
...Gleam. Texas Eastern had begun as a gleam in the eyes of E. Holley Poe, an Oklahoma-born gas consultant; Everette Lee De Golyer, Texas' famed oil geologist ; Charles I. Francis, a Houston lawyer, and Houston's shipyard-building brothers, George and Herman Brown (TIME, Feb. 24). They advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent...
...only gleam of hope for Kirkland rooters came early in the opening stanza, when a Deacon quick-kick bounced off Dick Muessel's hand and into the end zone, where it was covered for two quick points. The final scoring came similarly in the last quarter when Bob Adams broke through to block a Deacon kick. In the end-zone scramble, he fell over the back line for two more points. House grid Ratings Won Lost Tied ELIOT 5 0 1 KIRKLAND 4 1 0 LEVERETT 4 1 0 DUDLEY 3 4 0 LOWELL 2 3 0 ADAMS...
...American Past is almost exclusively focused on politics and politicians, sheds only an occasional gleam on the high spots of U.S. social history. But on U.S. politics, it is a first-rate picture book...