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...Dream of You and Mandy Lee of last year's champs, the mustachioed, white-aproned Phillips "66" Barflies of Bartlesville, Okla. Most favored challengers were the Flat Foot Four, a quartet of Oklahoma City cops in uniform. By the time the cops had finished a slurred-toned Shine, a highly original Annie
...Anacostia River near Washington's Navy Yard, engineers tested fluorescent buoys to be used as markers for alighting seaplanes. Having no hot filaments to burn out, fluorescent lamps (coated inside with powders which shine by electrical agitation) are durable as well as efficient. The buoy lamps are carried on inflated floats shaped like doughnuts, which contain short-wave radio receivers so that the lamps can be turned on & off by remote control from shore...
...fault. Failure lies in the dialogue, which is often incredibly dull and obvious, and in the mediocrity of acting by Joel McCrea, Queenie Vassar (the grandmother), and Marjorie Rambeau (the mother). Ginger Rogers does well, and adds pictorial value, but trite situations, leading to a particularly obvious conclusion, constantly shine through the veneer and contribute to a dull and disappointing film...
...begin to glow at 525° C. But many other agencies besides heat can produce light-rubbing, fracture, pounding, excitation by electricity or short-wave radiation, etc. Surgeon's tape emits a greenish glow when stripped from a roll. Lumps of sugar luminesce when rubbed together. Quartz pebbles shine when struck by a hammer...
...bubbled through a dilute pyrogallol solution, the liquid glows brightly though no heat is evolved. Not true is the common saying that scientists are still searching for "cold light." Fluorescent and vapor-discharge lamps (e.g., neon, sodium) are true "cold lights" in that heat is not what makes them shine...