Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Titania's close resemblance to diamonds is due to its index of refraction, i.e., its ability to bend light rays. This property makes a stone glitter. Diamond's index of refraction is extremely high: 2.42. Titania's index is higher: 2.62 to 2.90. Even more important is its "dispersion," i.e., its ability to break white light into rainbow colors. Diamond disperses light twice as much as common glass does, but titania disperses it seven times as much. So far, titania cannot be made absolutely white (many valuable diamonds are not white, either), and it will never rival...
...first batch of annual reports for 1950 came out last week. They had a 24-carat glitter...
...Bing brought it off beautifully," reported the society editor of the New York Daily News. She was referring to the social glitter of the Metropolitan Opera's opening night, but the judgment was just as applicable to the business onstage. With Don Carlo for an opener (TIME, Nov. 13), new General Manager Rudolf Bing had handsomely kept his promise to bring operatic productions up to date. Furthermore, he had made money doing it. An audience of 4,000 had packed the big house (paying a $36 top) to give him the biggest opening-night gross (after taxes...
...they opened their first store, The Great American Tea Co., on Manhattan's Vesey Street. They used all the glitter and tinsel of a circus. The store was painted a flaming red ("real Chinese vermilion") ; red, white & blue globes dangled resplendently in its windows, a huge gaslit "T" glowed above its door. Their first ads cried: "There's good news for the ladies." They had other come-ons: on Saturday nights they handed out dishpan premiums and lithographs of babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this...
Boris Aronson's sets are wonderfully faithful to the Odetsian scene. The squalor of a one-room flat is accented by a flowering red plant, an empty stage by a dramatic shadow. In a Broadway dressing room there is a feeling of glitter. Mr. Odets has directed the play himself, and except for a slow paced first act, his staging is effective...