Word: shone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pearl of all educational programs shone again last Sunday. After seven weeks off the air, CBS's Invitation to Learning (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) returned at a new time, 11:30 a.m. to 12 E.S.T., with discussion of the second most popular books in the world (Don Quixote). The talkers Mark Van Doren, John Peale Bishop and Jacques Barzan, examined the mad knight of Cervantes as an archetype of all high-minded but ill-informed reformers, found a recent treatment of the same subject in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. They agreed, however, that Cervantes...
...corporation profits in 1941's third quarter were hay made while the sun shone. Combined profits of 200 big concerns (compiled by National City Bank) were $374,000,000, highest since 1929 and 48% above the September quarter of 1940. Nine-month profits were...
...debris of the fantastically brilliant exploding star recorded by Chinese stargazers in 1054 A.D. now forms the Crab nebula. "This star shone temporarily ten times brighter than the moon," said Rudolph Minkowski of Mount Wilson Observatory, "and was visible for a full month in the daytime sky. It was . . . one of the three supernovae which have appeared in the Milky Way during the last thousand years. The others were Tycho's star in 1572, and Kepler's Nova of 1604." In Pasadena next day Minkowski's colleague, Walter Baade, announced finding the debris of Kepler...
...Oswald Mosley, interned in London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England, threw out 90 books by P. G. Wodehouse, termed them "waste paper." / / Wandering Ex-King Carol...
...parade will enter the automobile gate nearest the gun shed, following which the Battery Commanders will take over the ROTC men and put them through their paces. Men who have shone in one way or another will receive medals and awards, given by the receiving officer. Colonel Jay has stated that all families and friends of the members of the ROTC are cordially invited to attend the Review...