Word: shone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject. If such an argument had really been used by the Harvard team, your thinking readers will undoubtedly take, that example as the reason why the judges were of the opinion that as far as good, sound, reliable, argumentative matter was concerned, the Yale men far out-shone the Harvard debaters. MARCIAL P. LICHAUCO...
...Though their exaltation of spirit be obscured, though men make light of the aspirations for making that shone upon their path, though profiteers grow rich upon the havoc wrought by war, though their own comrades use it to extort a dole; yet is their sacrifice of undying value and untarnished splendor. It stands for a faith that life is but a means to a still greater end, that life has an object More precious far than life itself. No selfishness of man or nation can, blot their sacrifice or mock then faith, for through that faith alone is life worth...
...after all, a rippling thing, light and flowing, even as the third movement, and the only possible excuse for dragging it, the "logic of the larger lines", to be aliterative, Mr. Monteux had. Even so it did not wholly satisfy. It was in the symphony, too, that the orchestra shone least; a certain lack of brilliance, which is Mr. Monteux's major fault with the classics,--that lack which must necessarily accompany his extreme refinement, was overbalanced by the wood and brass...
...morning of Independence Day found the S. S. Leviathan of the United States Lines lying at Pier 86, in the Hudson River, at the foot of 46th Street, Manhattan. It was a dull morning, but the ship's three red, white and blue funnels shone in their new paint...
...entirely unfair to call Mr. House a Boswell. He has a very kindly nature and a genuine liking for men?especially great men. And he has always shone by reflected light. Following Wilson's retirement, House, too, went into obscurity...