Word: shone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked English, French, American jumpers, lined up and broke before the flag sent them away for the Grand National, the world's most famed steeplechase, run annually since 1839, near Liverpool, England...
Nova Pictoris, bright star of a comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed...
...outset of the Great War, amid the desoluation and gloom, one belief shone through the murkiness. It was that after such a world-involving calamity lasting peace must ensue. When the war ended, statesmen enthusiastically took up their task making certain that peace. But politics and petty jealousy overcame their ardor until there could be no absolute surety that such a catastrophe might not reoccur...
...years of peace have streamed by, bringing new problems and new crises, the world has come to forget many of the names that blazed before it a decade ago, Wilson is dead. Lloyd George is following the faint glow of his political star, that once shone like a sun; Clemenceau, in quiet oblivion, is writing his memoirs; the magic name of Hindenburg alone has been strong enough to call a wartime hero from retirement back into the world. But a few weeks ago Earl Haig, who had once fought the old Prussian general died; and Wednesday another of those whose...
...Arena this coming Saturday night. However, disregarding all other factors, it is safe to say that Coach Farrell's 1928 team will make a supreme effort to retain the Triangular laurels and make as creditable a showing as its brilliant predecessors of the past three seasons.DASH LUMINARY WHO SHONE BRIGHTLY IN 1927 H-D-C MEET A. H. MILLER...