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Word: gleams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a question whether Brazil's big farmers would be willing to follow Nelson Rockefeller's gleam. And would Brazilian capitalists be attracted by anything but exorbitant profits? Still, a little success would go a long way in big, backward Brazil. And such a commercially helpful hand would be a potent implement to U.S. foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Enlightened Capitalism | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Liggett's was taking inventory Sunday night with a sadistic gleam in its eye, but Monday morning found tooth-paste still within bounds, and the girl behind the counter still booked solid through July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Prices Hold as O.P.A. Dies; Mike's Club Vacillates on Frappes | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a workable and reasonable way of saving the world from the atom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: The First Hope | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...France. When peace came, he hurried back. Sand had drifted again over the tomb, but gangs of chanting laborers soon cleared a suspiciously thick wall. Probing between its limestone blocks, Professor Montet felt an empty space. His workmen lifted the blocks; through the ancient dead air, they saw the gleam of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress Garson, frequently cast in heavy-heroine or merely mealy parts, carries off her role with sparkle. But the steady gleam of the picture is the inimitable, jug-eared, perdurable Clark Gable, 45, back from the wars and still going strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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