Word: shining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Late at night in the House of Commons, when the freshness has gone from the air, and the lights shine dully on bald pates, weariness creeps into the usually keen blue eyes of the man sitting alone on the government front bench. His blue suit crumples. The thinning blond hair is no longer so carefully brushed across the balding scalp, and every now & then he coughs chestily. He fidgets. His left hand rubs slowly over his cheeks, reaches for a handkerchief to wipe his plumpish fate. Or his right forefinger goes round and upward to scratch...
...runway (see diagram). The mirror is mounted like the mirror of a dressing table, so that a gyro stabilizer can keep it at the proper angle no matter how much the carrier may be pitching. On each side of it are horizontal rows of colored lights. Strong white lights shine into it from near the carrier's stern...
...year ago, the persecution of Protestantism in East Germany was at its height. Then Stalin died, and, like the sudden end of a spring storm, sweetness and light seemed to shine from Moscow. Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl received the bishops of the Eastern Evangelical Churches and a treaty of church-state peace was signed...
...brother for the Hale telescope. Even if its mirror were made twice as wide (a monstrously difficult and costly undertaking), it would see only twice as far into space. It might not see even as far as that; one of the Hale's great difficulties is the faint "shine" of the night sky, which fogs its photographic plates before they can catch the images of extremely distant objects. A bigger Hale-type telescope would suffer even more from sky shine...
...impress a strong image on a photographic plate, or to be scanned and displayed on a screen after the manner of television. The scanning system would not only yield a much stronger image with the same amount of light, it might even eliminate the fogging due to sky shine...