Word: shone
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time the water was fairly smooth and a steady breeze blew down the course. Courtney refused, however, to permit his crew to race, although Harvard and Yale were both willing. The race was accordingly postponed until 7 o'clock. At that time the storm had lifted and the sun shone out clear and strong. The change in the tides necessitated the race being rowed up stream, and everything was in readiness. No crews, however, appeared at the start, and it was finally announced by the referee that the race would take place tomorrow at 12.30 o'clock...
While for Thirty-three Years he moved among the Teachers and Students of Harvard College. and wist not that his Face shone...
Adelaide Nilson was an excellent actress of Shakspere. Through her, if through any one his characters shone without personal whims or affectations. Yet she was hardly careful enough to bring out Rosalind's mirthful character. The Rosalinds since Nilson have had conspicuous faults. Modjeska's acting of the part was too modern and hysterical; Miss Davenport's Rosalind lacked poetry. Ada Rehan is the best actress of this character since Nilson, but even she is a bright, sweet, interesting Rosalind and no more. Though fault can be found with these actresses, however, there are few of us who could...
...done all its work it is easier to take a more comprehensive glance at the class as a whole, and discern its true excellencies. The claim of a class to distinction is generally measured nowadays by its success or failure in athletics. Although Ninety-two athletes have not shone especially brilliantly on university teams, they still have a record in athletics of which no class could be ashamed, and ever since its freshman year the class has shown a spirit in athletics of which it may well be proud. But it would be a narrow criterion by which to judge...
...midst of this uproar, but far above it, Christ grew up. When it is realized that His calmness and beauty shone out from a back-ground of such wildness, how can it be argued that Christ was no more than the product of His times? How could His life have dawned in such darkness if it had not been from...