Word: glows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India is to feel the glow of freedom she must have control of her own defense," he cabled. . . . "Nor can I reconcile myself to external control of financial matters...
...when the hour grew late, and the sun went down, Then . . . home again, Mimsey and I, Through the sweet Paris twilight, The glow-worms shining through the grass, And the frogs, croaking, far away, In the Mare d'Auteuil...
...over which the exhaust gases pass. This bridge is electrically connected, through a tiny battery, to a sensitive ammeter on the pilot's (chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause the platinum wires to glow hot (by its catalytic property), resist electricity. The battery current is thus shunted back through the nickel wires, to register on the graduated scale of the dial exactly what percentage of fuel is not being burned. Dr. Hutchison estimated the U. S. might save $1,000,000,000 worth...
When the visitors saw the turbine gathering speed, traveling at a rate of several thousand revolutions per min. they stopped their whispers, stared. Then Georges Claude turned on electric generators. Forty large bulbs began to glow dully, soon lighted up, shone brightly for min. Cuban scientists nodded their heads. Here was a Power which might some day give to Cuba and all tropical and semitropical countries an industrial value they never dreamed...
...finest of a large group of Russian comedys. Naturally, it is not the sort of play that one usually associates with the slightly distorted comedy as it is presented on the American stage. The situation is not humorous nor does the conclusion leave one with a glow of satisfaction because the heroine finally got the heir. This is rather the sort of comedy that is associated with the unfortunate Malvolio, a play of incongruities. Practically every character is caught in a problem that is impossible for him to solve, and it is in the living creation of these distinct...