Word: shining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backers asked 300 colleges to take over the best of these pupils and see whether they could weather the college courses. The implication lies that, unprepared for the college board examinations, the pupils may shine as students. Time will fell. They may flop...
University swimming stars will have an opportunity to shine tonight when the annual pool meet gets underway at 8 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building. Freshmen, Varsity, upperclassmen, and graduate students have all entered...
...never walk down there," the experienced bottom-saunterer continued. "I shove myself around on my stomach in ever widening circles--my technique would shame the most adroit pollywog. The clouds of mud I stir up make using a light about as useful as trying to shine it through a thick London fog. You can't see anything and if you're not careful to keep your suit full of air, you will squash up into your helmet...
Hawaii is not to be outdone by delegates from the Mikado and has again sent a student to Harvard who will some day, mark my words, shine as a first magnitude star in the Crimson swimming firmament. Already he has broken the Freshman record in the 200-yard free-style and bids fair to lower his own mark once more. This particular representative of Hawaii is Peter Emilio Arioli, Jr. '38, who gives his home as Hilo, Hawaii...
...start things moving, and a fire with Lee Tracy's little boy supposedly locked in a box within the flaming tents. Another explanation of the mediocrity of the picture may be that the theatre believes that a dull setting best sets off a jewel, that their vaudeville may better shine beside a poor film. However that may be, the vaudeville is entertaining and the screen fare distinctly second rate...