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Word: shone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before me, filling the East and the South of East, there lay a latitude of fog, a world of it, and out of the expanse of vapor there shone a glare this side of the sun, now rising in obscurity; and from the region of this singular light came the crying of the waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Brighton, Pa., Health Officer Fred Myers, called by neighbors to investigate a house in which gas lights had shone night and day for two weeks, found a dead man sitting in a chair, an open book beside him. Said the man's widow: "I thought there was something wrong. He wouldn't talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...back who shone most brilliantly last week was Tom Harmon of Michigan. Against Iowa, Junior Harmon, a 9.9 sprinter and champion hurdler, scored every one of Michigan's 27 points: four touchdowns (including a 90-yd. dash after intercepting a forward pass) and three conversions- as magnificent a display of fancy field running, forward passing, blocking and place-kicking as has been seen on a college football field since the days of Red Grange. Michigan 27, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Backs | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Leverett's frequent fumbles were the chief bar preventing them from running up a high score, but their defense was air-tight. Edmunds shone in the backfield, while Ben Wilcox, tackle, and the two ends, Jack Hughes and Dick Dawes, were outstanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES BEAT GREEN DORMITORY TEAM, 19-0 | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...grand triumph of the hockey season was the play of Captain Austic Harding. One of the greatest of all Harvard ice stars, Austic shone on a mediocre team. After a fair-to-middling season, the six captured the objective series with Yale by tying the Blues at New Haven, 3-3, and crushing them, 7-3, in Boston. Harding closed his collegiate career in a blaze of glory by tallying four goals in the final Yale game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teams Won Five Yale Contests Last Year | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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