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Word: shiningly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary bicycle. Even then he will not be bothered by insects." The worst insects are ihenni, vicious black flies that hang in dark clouds in the air. There are also poisonous snakes, jaguars, piranhas (carnivorous fish). Despite the dampness, water holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA: Gran Chaco | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game tag-ender. Molly Gourlay had gone out in 38 to put her two down. Mrs. Hill came home in 39 with the match squared. Rain or shine, the team score thus stood 5½ to 3½, first victory for a U. S. ladies' team invading England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies in the Rain | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above his boy's head, above the sooty fog, shine out the stars; but these he cannot eat, and barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Hole | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...earth had eclipsed it. The moon and earth have no light of their own. Both reflect light from the sun. The moon looks yellow because it has no atmosphere to screen the sun's rays and hide its general brownness.- (The earth's atmosphere makes the earth shine blue and 40 times more brightly than the moon.) When the moon gets between the earth and the sun and totally eclipses the sun, as it will next Aug. 31, the swift path of the moon's shadow is black.f But when the ball of the earth gets between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ruddy Blink | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh last week rolled a strange new material. It looked and felt like a sheet of steel, but its surface did not shine like steel. It was a surface soft as felt. A casual observer would have guessed it was steel covered with felt. Dr. Alden William Coffman would have pointed out that a cross section showed no line of demarcation between felt and steel. Then Dr. Coffman, who developed it, would have explained that it was felt-coated steel, but that the felt was not merely a covering, was an integral part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Robertson-Bonded-Metal | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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