Word: glow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years the Red and White members of the phosphorus family have been well known. A new member has now joined the group--Black, according to Professor P. W. Bridgman '04, Professor of Physics in the University. Phosphorus means "light- bearer" and most of us have seen the glow which the old-fashioned "all-day choker" matches gave out when scratched in the dark. This pale glow is due to white phosphorus used in making the head of the match so that it will strike easily and anywhere--from the thumb nail to the trouser...
Unfortunately the same chemical activity that makes white phosphorus glow in the dark also makes it poison the workmen in the factories and occasionally kill a mouse or an inquiring baby, so that matches of this sort were practically taxed out of existence by Federal law some years...
...bright glow appeared on an otherwise nocturnal horizon. U. S. President Coolidge instructed Sumner Welles, U. S. Commissioner to the Dominican Republic, to proceed to Tegucigalpa and offer the friendly assistance of the U. S. for the establishment of peace in Honduras...
...East End of London men, women, young men and maidens, are all huddled together in one room tonight, while there are homes, socalled, that have no cheery, comfortable, fireside; while there are places in which young men and women just married and in whose minds the glorious glow of love was still undimmed, had to face poverty, degradation, dirt and sordidness." At the beginning of the meeting the Socialist Marseillaise was sung. At the end a rendition of The Red Flag was given. God Save the King was not sung...
...alone can stop. America's attitude toward Dempsey has changed. Dempsey is defending honor, the sporting honor of the American flag. That his defense is based solely on the fortune involved does not affect the public fancy. He is a dominant idol. Never before has he felt the spotlight glow of popularity. If he should fail to win, his goose, with all its golden eggs, is finally cooked...