Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enzyme which lights up fireflies, and also lights up the bacteria which often make ponds and seawater phosphorescent. Working with flaskfuls of luminous bacteria, the researchers found that alcohol and anesthetics, when added in small amounts to the bacterial solutions, dimmed their luminescence. Greater amounts extinguished the glow altogether. (Conclusions: narcotics numb consciousness by affecting enzyme reactions, not-as hitherto suspected-by acting as fat solvents; human consciousness, which these drugs affect, is at least partly a chemical process sustained by enzymes.) The sulfa drugs acted like one group of narcotics on the enzyme, putting activities to sleep. (Conclusion...
...would have seen the billboards shining brightly on the roads leading into San Francisco. He would have seen the lights of Alcatraz, gleaming like an ocean liner on the black waters of the Bay. Over the downtown streets he would have seen the soft, red glow of neon signs...
Night falls. Here & there in the distance Very lights go up, trucks still burn, flaming oil dumps set up a glow. The escarpment gradually goes silent...
...glow instead with carotene...
Swift as the crackle of the million popping firecrackers, the news flashed through Chungking: Changsha was still in Chinese hands, the Japanese drive was smashed. Into Chungking's twisting streets poured thousands of cheering citizens. The red glow of their torches cast dancing shadows on the ruins of their bomb-blasted homes. This was victory. For the first time in two years Chinese had inflicted a major defeat on the Japanese Army...