Word: shone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx one day last week 75 concealed Federal agents, city detectives and State troopers watched a man come out of a small stucco house, cross a lane to a frame garage. He backed his black sedan into the sunlight and 75 hearts skipped a beat when the license plate shone with the numerals 4U-13-41. Plainclothesmen followed the car a few blocks, forced it to the curb...
During the summer months the Maintenance Department has made by while the hot sun shone and among other things installed 101 nice new radiators in Eliot House. Last winter during the could snap there was much complaint among the Elephants of ill-heated rooms due to icy radiators and the Maintenance Department has in the fullness of time takes there strong measures to keep the Pachyderms warm. It has also smiled its paternal smile on the chilly Lowell House men to the tune of 55 radiators...
...sanatorium lights shone brightly in the summer dusk. Marie Curie lapsed into coma. Next morning at daybreak she died. Her body was taken to Paris. In a crypt 20 miles from Paris, her remains were placed beside those of her husband. Only witnesses were her daughters, son-in-law, a handful of intimate associates. One by one, in silence, they filed past the casket and each laid on it a rose. The world Press rang with acclaim for the greatest woman scientist in history...
...night sky that appears only once in a blue moon. Last week U. S. readers were rubbing amazed eyes, asking themselves if the moon were not once again blue. For Duel, Norwegian Author Ronald Fangen's first, book to be brought out in the U. S.. shone with an unmistakably Dostoevskian light. Like his great prototype. Author Fangen is a foreigner but his translated words need no visa. The world he writes about is the same world of which most U. S. readers feel themselves citizens, a country inhabited not by brain-fevered intellectuals but by human beings...
...junketing, were permitted to take along their wives (TIME, Dec. 4). It was svelte Mme Suritz who turned the trick by having Paris gowns ready for the dowdy wives from Moscow and an expert modiste on hand to fit them. Under Dictator Kemal's critical eye, they shone at his grand ball as "Soviet Cinderellas...