Word: glow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would take 50 or 60 of such cells arranged in series of tandem to produce one incandescent light. If the loop of wire is broken in the middle the lamp will go out. Then if more cells are added until the number is 10, 000 a pale luminous glow will come from the lamp. One terminal of the lamp is called the annode and from this stream these invisible rays...
...with heaviness as if he had just awakened from a deep sleep. After trying for some time to find his way out of the wood, he came at length to the foot of a mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet, longing to reach the light and leave the gloomy forest depths behind, begins to ascend the mountain, when he meets a spotted leopard, which makes him retreat downward again. Three times he struggles to reach the summit, and three times he meets raging animals...
...works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable us to form...
...below a great wave of hope and determination. Each one of us should see before him the picture of the game, the final struggle of the men who have faithfully served us this fall and every spark of manly feeling that exists here should be fanned to a ruddy glow by enthusiasm and loyalty, Not till we thus live and act can Captain Waters and his men look with a feeling of absolute confidence on the crowd of students who will line the Harvard side of Hampden Park. Nor is it enough that we think and feel this...
...supply of hot water will be curiously erratic, coming for five minutes and then refusing to come for fifteen more. Under ordinary circumstances a man has to wait in line for his bath long enough without having to stand many more minutes on that cold, wet floor while the glow of his exercise is slowly leaving him, all the time waiting for the hot water to come back again. This takes it for granted that he finally gets hot water. When, however, he does not, he has either to take a sudden plunge in the shower bath, or go without...