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Word: shone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zarakov turned in a pair of sparkling plays on ground balls to the hot corner and the remainder of the Crimson inner defense gave tight support in the field. The visiting garden trio shone brightly while the infielders were messing up everything they touched. Asher robbed Ellison of a triple in the fourth when he gathered in his long drive after a hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BALL TOSSERS SMOTHER RHODE ISLAND | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

...hose water, impossible eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time incoming classes, while posing for their photographs, have been advised by sophomores that vanity is not pleasing to the gods. But the freshmen have always laved the temples afterward until they shone pristine and classic as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words, Words | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

Last week, however, a youth whose face shone clean and pleasant beneath his black skullcap, said something just as Joe was opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 1, 1926 | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

Roman Fascists buried their noses deep amid the pages of the ultra-Fascist news organ, L'Impero. When their heads tipped back to a normal angle, a great light shone in their eyes. Excited, they read to one another a creed just formulated by Signor Marinetti, so called "founder of futurism." It called upon loyal Fascists to profess openly their belief in the following tenets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Creed | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...plush curtains, all speak of a civic pride that clings anxiously to dwindling incunabula. It is not a matter of tradition, for most of the old families have moved to Manhattan. "Foreigners" and their blowsy women cook goulash and whip children in the houses where 40 years ago candles shone in crystal girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed. You see them scurrying along the sidewalk on obscure errands, babbling cheerfully to themselves some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Brooklyn | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

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