Word: shined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet record for 100 yards and last year captured both sprints. Healy, holder of the meet record for the javelin throw, is the second star for the Blue. The third bright light of the Andover entries is Paxton, winner of the 220-yard hurdles last spring. Other Andover entries shine less brightly, only because of the brilliance of their three teammates...
...light and swaying bamboo structure spanning the Charles. It will not sag and sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk on: not as a Freshman promenade but as a Business School thoroughfare. The Chinese element which has argued for a pagoda-like approach, the Indian students who have hoped for pontoons...
...university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment. Not so. For this task of writing, she trains much as an athlete trains for a race. Rain or shine, she walks several miles each day. Several times a week, she swims. She does not do things by halves. When she decided that swimming was an excellent form of exercise for a woman living in the city, she promptly secured a swimming teacher and is learning stroke after stroke. She can even...
Lord Bryce, whose dismal prophesies concerning the abilities of American public men have long been accepted with humility, may yet be refuted. The upper hierarchy of officials and representatives begins to shine with intellectual distinction of a sort a condition which would hardly have been tolerated by the electorate of Jackson's time. Strange as this state may be to those who feel that the government must reflect the stupidity as well as the wishes of the masses, it would be more alarming if the extraordinary diffusion of higher education among the prosperous classes in America were not soon reflected...
...have absolutely nothing to say or to announce," Mr. Pennypacker said yesterday when interviewed in his office, "except to say that in my opinion there is no reason to suppose the world has come to an end just because we have lost a football game. The sun will shine again, you may be sure...