Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he took over from Julian Coolidge '95 in September, 1940, Perkins has shown an appreciation for a good joke well played. The House member who risked his distinctly non-Hibernian neck to make the Lowell tower glow green on St. Patrick's Day night got a fine letter of recommendation to the Medical School, half of it devoted to that incident. When Perkins learned that the prankster was one of the first from his class to be admitted, he was not surprised. "I know they are always interested in a fellow with ideas," he says with a smile...
Gone Are the Days. During the '20s, '30s and part of the '40s, music publishers got along well enough without much help from the record industry. In the early days, such a hit as Glow Worm might sell two or three million copies of sheet music for them. After it was launched in vaudeville or a Broadway show, its principal salesman was a fast-talking song plugger whose job it was to visit bandleaders and coax or coerce a performance out of them. If he could get a song on Kate Smith's radio program...
...When." Obviously, Curator Dodgson did not take his duties lightly. He used every mathematical device he knew to keep his cellars just right and to make sure that the paneled Common Room would glow with good wine and talk. When he wanted to know the proper temperature for a wine or when it should be decanted, he was not satisfied with the opinion of only one expert. He wrote to ten, averaged up their answers and acted accordingly. Nor did he trust the accuracy of only one thermometer. Each week he faithfully took the average reading of three...
Dutch Sea Captain Jan Drent, now 59, never imagined that learned astronomers would ever take serious note of his lifetime hobby. While studying navigation at the Kweek School voor de Zeevaart (a merchant marine academy), he heard about the zodiacal light, a faint, wedge-shaped glow that reaches into the sky near the plane of the earth's orbit. It is best seen in the tropics just after dusk or just before dawn. Astronomers now believe that it is sunlight reflected from small particles revolving around the sun like miniature planets, but in Drent's youth the experts...
...nearly 40 years, Drent sailed the world's seas on the ships of the Nederland Line. At night he watched the faint glow in the sky and came to know it intimately. He made detailed notes and grew so interested that he took two years off to study physics and astronomy at the Sorbonne. Back at sea with his new knowledge and the title of Licencié ès Sciences, he began an intensive study of the zodiacal light. He plotted its hazy outline against the wheeling stars and kept records of its position, which changes with the seasons...