Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the merger is, simply that Dunster (and, to a lesser extent, Adams) needs subsidizing because of its smaller size and unfavorable location for visitors. However, Leverett is even smaller than Dunster, and visiting Yale men do not, on the whole, pick their House dances, like their shoe shine parlors, on the basis of central location. There should be as many men in Dunster House as in any other with friends from Yale and this is what brings in visitors...
Back lags midway, and the confused-identity persiflage is overdone. But there is still enough shine and liveliness to Green's story to put his book well up among the most entertaining of the season...
...moth with a tiny thermocouple buried in the fur of her thorax. They found that it might be as much as 11° above the temperature of the surroundings. Since all warm objects radiate in the infrared, the conclusion was that a hot-blooded female moth "must literally 'shine' against a background of cool forest objects...
...outskirts two helicopters are flying. Most of the Koreans on the highway look briefly up, then down again, as the helicopters hover and pass. But one, a boy of perhaps seven or eight, stares upward at the monstrous things with a gaze of fixed and bright fascination. His eyes shine, his lips are parted, and I think of an American boy gazing at his first bicycle on a Christmas morning...
...translation of the Psalms came out last week. The new Psalms, issued by the Roman Catholic Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, lacked the high literary shine of Msgr. Ronald Knox's version (TIME, March 24, 1947), but they often make the triple-translated renderings of the Catholic Douay Version* sound like a third-year Latin scholar reading at sight. Sample (Psalm...