Word: glimmering
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...kerosene lamps shed garish glimmer on yellow pine walls, rows of stolid Vermonters, a white-surpliced young rector. The President and his wife came down the lane, down the aisle, sat down. Few looked at them. . . . The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour...
...instruction that is given has a practical application. There is no glimmer anywhere of pure knowledge or pure science. In spite of the fact that this system scarcely seems promising of eventual success to a Westerner, it has shown fairly good results so far. The rising generation is certainly far better educated than its totally ignorant predecessors...
...royal carriage halted, the people assembled and danced their native folk dance, the kole. Delighted peasants capered and cried out that the good old times had come again. That night Alexander and Marie slept tranquilly in the royal castle, uninhabited since the exile of the Petrovich dynasty. A glimmer of rejoicing and good will had lifted the lowering cloud of the Balkans for an instant...
...this, of course, is only a feeble glimmer of light on a dark problem. No one expects to find many mighty readers in college. But there ought always to be at least a few in each class. It is their golden opportunity. And there are many who hold, in the midst of the endless discussions of the higher education, that the one thing which colleges may yet do is to teach the boys to read...
...past, of love for the game of football and loyalty to the athletic interests of Harvard? I mention the graduates because I know that a great many of them are anxious to get an expression of undergraduate sentiment on the matter. If there is a single, faint glimmer of hope for football at Harvard, it lies in an emphatic expression of opinion from a large number of graduates, both old and young. But as long as we who are in college seem indifferent - we who are the ones immediately affected by the Faculty's action - how can we expect graduates...