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Word: glimmerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession of horrors is almost too much-but not quite. Author Lacour tips his pen with a searching probe of each character's deepest self. The priest, in his own eyes not a very good one, finally catches a glimmer of grace through sacrifice. The German and the Jew, in the only sticky pages of the book, discover the brotherhood of man, and so on through the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Hell | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Despite popular rumor, you need not be a budding Shakespeare or prodigious newsgatherer to become a member of the CRIMSON. Anyone with a glimmer of interest and a potential talent for making or developing pictures can avoid the treadmill of the news and editorial competitions by becoming a CRIMSON photographer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Photography Board Emphasizes Potential Talent, Gives Training | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

...enormously complicated chemical compounds. How were these compounds produced in the slow aeons of the world's beginnings? Last week Dr. Melvin Calvin, professor of chemistry at the University of California, described some probable steps in the strange, speculative science of chemical evolution that led to the first glimmer of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution Before Life | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...voters would swing to the pro-Roman Catholic P.A.N. Instead, the women looked carefully over their husbands' shoulders to find the right place to make their mark; the men were as fervently convinced as ever that P.R.I, allegiance and patriotism are one and the same thing. The only glimmer of hope for P.A.N. was in a few tight, undecided local races that might boost the P.A.N. total in Congress (from the present six seats in the House of Deputies, none in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Expected Landslide | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...like Mr. Nehru could shed the glamour of office, he could, perhaps-it is a small chance-bring back the only organized party in the country to a righteous path of service and sacrifice." But instead, "Mr. Nehru, by his decision, has taken away that little glimmer and left us in the darkness of a totalitarian future. Oh! Weep for Adonis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Tiger Rider | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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