Word: shining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shared by 20,000 people in the U. S., is to apply the principles of the Sermon on the Mount "scientifically" to modern life. The Federation considers the lilies of the field, how they grow, and it accepts Christ's words: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works. To grow like the lily or to shine like the light is to use the "creative essence of the power of God," which everyone possesses. Not everyone, however, has an equal chance to create. So the Federation, by means of a revolving sinking fund...
Representative Hamilton Fish's strictures on the New Deal seem to have overtaxed his native stock of invective and sent him quarrying in the works of our early masters of vituperation. His recent characterization of the WPA ". . . Like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks" (TIME, July 18), rather ineptly retains the stench but loses the shine of the original simile which eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke applied to Edward Livingston over a century ago: "Fellow-citizens, he is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight...
...Secret Service identified him as harmless Woody Hockaday, 52, Kansas eccentric who two years ago, shouting "Feathers instead of bullets!" burst a bag of feathers in the office of Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). This time eccentric Hockaday's idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel of wheat, make 60 loaves of bread, sell them for 10? each and a profit of $4.50-which he would then distribute to baker, miller and middleman...
Disappointment. Dr. Wood likes the theatre (he once was active in amateur theatricals), music and social functions, makes a special effort to shine when ladies are present. In science, the great disappointment of his life has been that he has not received the Nobel Prize. His colleagues say that this is because Wood's mind, brilliantly productive in the early stages of an experiment, tends to grow bored and look for something else when the research reaches a stage where long routine labor is in prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus...
...course in Child Psychology, number 17 was the most notable example of not being what it was expected to be, though a course cannot shine in its first year. Barker, though a good lecturer, spends too much time on statistics. Concentrators suggested that the work of Freud be taken...