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Word: shiningly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific problem, with exact, creative thinking, the thesis can act as a great developer of character. In this way, it can benefit not only the incipient scholar, but the future businessman, who can look back on the one great creation of his college days while riding "on a shoe-shine and a smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cum Laude in General Studies | 4/14/1956 | See Source »

...ordained minister, and back in the family home in Joplin, Mo., she gave him a short sermon that he has never forgotten. Said she: "Your mind is like a light bulb. It's up to you whether you use it like a 60-watt bulb or make it shine as bright as a 1,000-watter." She did not protest when Cummings decided to look for a socket on the Great White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 1,000-Watt Bulb | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Every weekend, rain or shine, whenever the ground is not frozen. Commercial Artist Bertram Wymer, 65, his wife Lea and their son John tramp across a deserted gravel pit at Swanscombe on the down-Thames outskirts of London. They walk with their heads down, eying every pebble. At the far end of the pit they enter a wire-fenced enclosure and start digging cautiously with garden trowels. They have been digging diligently ever since the end of the war, and recently they made the first finds of a peculiar treasure they have long sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fire? | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must get a shine before I see the Minister," says Pyle, after his bomb explodes, killing the wrong people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greene Hell of Indo-China | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...Diary of Anne Frank of 17-year-old Susan Strasberg (TIME, Oct. 17). Susan got an actress's recognition last week when her name went up in lights a foot high above the title of the show, and she became the youngest dramatic star ever to shine on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Star | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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