Word: shone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great sledge. The sledge was covered with a pall of silver; it had silver handles. The silver gleamed dully. Above, on the alabaster casket shone much gold- a dado, four seals and hasps. Explorer Carter's men inched up the lid, moved it most carefully to the floor. The box was open for the first time since TutankhAmen's priests made their incantations over it, since they set his soul on the path towards Amenti, the Region of the West where Osiris waited with his 42 judges to approve its virtue and permit its passage to the Egyptian...
When the smarter trains of the Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific lines moved out of Chicago last week, there was that about them which roused racial comment. Above the tidy uniforms of the club car attendants there shone, not the usual smiling Negro faces, but twinkling Oriental faces, the faces of twelve young Chinamen...
...goals followed in the second period, and two in the third, counted for the most part after long zigzag sprints down the ice. Passing fell into disuse as it became evident that any individual might break away on his own account. Wetmore, Holbrook, and F. R. G. Giddens '29 shone most brilliantly in the latter part of the affray...
Fish v. Hogan. One purple patch shone forth in a side-argument between Lawyer Frank J. Hogan of Washington, D. C. and U. S. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York. Mr. Hogan, attorney for Edward L. Doheny in the Fall-Doheny phases of the oil lease litigation, heard that Representative Fish had publicly listed jury-tampering among Dr. Doheny's doings. Since Mr. Doheny has yet another trial to stand, Lawyer Hogan remonstrated with Representative Fish lest his client be further misunderstood by the public. Representative Fish denied having cast upon Mr. Doheny any aspersions in addition to those...
...football of the Mauve Decade that the brightest stars shone, and the greatest machines rolled over all opposition. The famous "Deland Flying Wedge" of Harvard was answered by the "Guards Back", devised by George Woodruff of Pennsylvania. From 1894 on, this formation crushed Harvard teams under foot for four years. By sheer force of weight and spirit the University elevens were able to keep the score low, but the Quakers always scored enough to take the game...