Word: luster
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...invention relates to a process reproducing in pictures the natural luster or sheen of the feathers of birds or other objects, so that such pictures not only will be faithful reproductions of the natural colorings of the birds but also of the luster of the plumage...
...bright hope is offered that chess may again obtain the high place its history demands, and the amusement and relaxation of Khufu, of Solomon and of Archimedes, regain its ancient luster. The sightless couriers of the air have been harnessed to bring unseen thought from the far corners of the earth. The very winds will rattle to the messages of opposing plays, even as they now rattle to the cabalistic numerals of the quarterbacks on any Saturday afternoon. What incentive will be given to the young Edisons, with their apparatus of chicken wire and a clothes pole, to catch from...
...Miss Wolfe, was enabled to extend his researches to Asia Minor, from which he brought away a collection of over nine hundred inscriptions which, in the opinion of the great European epigraphists, is second to no other in historical value, and will, when edited and published, add great luster to American scholarship in the person of Doctor Sterrett...
...times of religious or political excitement this supreme power has occasionally been unscrupulously exerted. But in most cases the states which were working out their own independence were favorably disposed toward the universities; they required intelligent officials, and the fame of their country's university conferred a certain luster upon the government. The ruling officials, were, moreover, for the most part students of the university; they remained attached to it. It is very remarkable how among wars and political changes in the states fighting with the decaying empire for the consolidation of their young sovereignties, while almost all other privileged...