Search Details

Word: glows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...State Department Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, office windows glow far into the night. Presidential address-drafters (Contingency Division) are apparently preparing for every eventuality. One draft of a possible Johnson TV address to the nation, found scribbled on the flyleaf of an abandoned copy of Barbara Ward's The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations, reportedly reads as follows...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Onward | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

Repeating Wood's experiment with a filtered, 8-in. telescope, Green produced lunar pictures with black spots near the crater Aristarchus, from which astronomers have reported seeing a red glow-a possible sign of volcanic activity. To Geologist Green, it all makes sense. Sulphur is the most abundant of volcanic materials, he says, and wherever volcanic sulphur is found on earth, it is surrounded by hydrous rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selenology: Water on the Moon? | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

Electrically charged SSTs would actually provide a visual dividend. Ionization of the air in front of the planes would produce a corona discharge that would be seen as a bright blue glow in the dark. "When supersonic traffic gets heavy," says Cahn, "this could provide observers on the ground with a spectacular view at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerodynamics: Charged Aircraft | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...young man's affinity for bold, large-scale works-especially from the late 19th and early 20th centuries -that glow with color and abound with dramatic contrasts. His concern is not detail but sweep and sound. He hears music with his nerve ends more than with his intellect. For this reason, he is less assured when he traces the transparent architecture of Mozart and Bach, or unfolds the subtle poetry of Schubert. Yet these are not fatal flaws in a conductor of his age. What is important is that he has the right foundation to build on. The visceral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Gypsy Boy | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...Adrian Kantrowitz. He also faced two expert interrogators: Newsman Martin Agronsky and Science Editor Earl Ubell. If anyone showed strain it was Dr. Kantrowitz - understandably, because his transplantation of a heart into a 19-day-old infant had failed after 61 hours. Dr. Barnard was lit up by the glow of a far greater success - the 18-day survival of Louis Washkansky's transplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Future of Transplants | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

Previous | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | Next