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Word: sheen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...events they are quite happy in their new home, for as soon as they got into the snow their grey feathers at once took on a glossy black sheen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...trousers or enter a nightclub, and her few, heavily supervised dates are with escorts certified by her family. At the end of a gruelingly elegant day, Cygnets must dress ("looking as if they have washed too") to dine by candlelight at small tables rich with silver. Examinations test the sheen of the polish; this week the girls will be grilled on "table manners" or "arrangements and care of flowers as an indoor decoration," and "Why is it important for a magazine story to have a happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Last Bastion | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Pope Pius last week named the successor to the late Cardinal Stritch as Archbishop of Chicago-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. (1,942,000 Catholics). He is Albert Gregory Meyer, for five years Archbishop of Milwaukee. (New York's and TV's Bishop Fulton Sheen was rumored to have been in the running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stritch's Successor | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...price line. But the prices were not strictly comparable to last year's because Buick completely changed all its cars, and some of the '59s will carry 1958 extras as standard equipment, e.g., acrylic lacquer finish that General Motors says retains 75% of its original sheen after a year's exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Auto Prices: Up & Down | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...display last week, Avery's sudden end-of-the-summer spurt made a glowing show. Hot Moon hung in the August sky like a ball of orange light that cast an orange sheen over the magenta sea; Sail shows a ghostly boat slipping silently through a sea of rapid blue and white strokes. "When people ask me how long it took," Avery explained. "I say 30 years. That's how long the preparation took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seaside Painting | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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