Word: glow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other colors-argon & mercury vapor for blue, the same combination in a yellow tube for green, carbon dioxide for white. The gases are confined in the tubes at low pressures (5 to 10 millimetres, compared to 760 millimetres in the sea-level atmosphere). The gases are made to glow by an alternating electric current flowing through them. Because of the penetrating quality of the infra-red rays given off, neon lamps are used as fog beacons, airfield lights...
...thousands come, anyone who has the price of admission) munch and watch. The colonists sell their batiks, paintings, arty gadgets. Newsboys hawk a special edition of the bulletin. Late in the afternoon a costume promenade winds infor- mally up & down wooded slope and dale. In the evening the campfires glow and a pageant is enacted. Always there has been a midnight costume ball but this year it was called off to placate (and fill with triumph) the townsmen. As the night wears on, tippling, done at first covertly, becomes rowdy. In the cold light of morning the sun rises...
...night four years ago, on a hill above the black water of Seattle's Lake Washington, gyrating torchlights shed their glow upon the heads and shoulders of hundreds of young men and women, undergraduates of the University of Washington. They were vigorously and visibly protesting against the enforced resignation of President Henry Suzzallo, who, the young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen...
House Afire concerns a philosophical incendiary who sets a torch to unhappy homes in the hope that life will seem better in the embers' glow. He perceives, for instance, that young Mrs. Walter Elliott is uneasy in her installment-plan nest in Rockport, N. J., and that her husband shows no inclination to listen to her pleas for a more stimulating, if less propertied, life. A job of arson helps the Elliotts. Burned out, they take a studio apartment in the city, hobnob with the bare and bibulous, plan to spend their insurance money on a trip to Europe...
...slow in coming, can sweeten the bitterness of a thousand quibbling opponents. For the woman who is a conscientious helpmeet, however, there are innumerable trails and duties without the prospect of direct self-satisfaction; the pleasure of success can be for her at best only a reflected glow, while the darts of the fault-finders penetrate her as deeply as they do her husband...