Word: shone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judged from the broad end of the picture tube, television had a bad year; its brightest moment shone like a candle in a morass of mediocre programs. But commercially, the industry seemed to be doing better than ever. Advertisers paid out a record $1.42 billion, a gross increase of 10% over 1957. By year's end the U.S. had a total of 512 operating TV stations (there were 495 at the end of 1957) catering to nearly 50 million TV receivers...
White Only. The segregationists' sun shone brightest last week on the porticoed facade of a hand-me-down structure built 50 years ago as a Methodist orphanage, later used as a graduate center for the University of Arkansas, now bought (by a wealthy Faubus backer, for $50,900) and relabeled: Senior High School-Little Rock Private School Corp. Newly titled School Superintendent W. C. Brashears (a former elementary school principal) announced a solid-sounding curriculum ("four years" of English, Arkansas and American history, applied mathematics, algebra, chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors...
...buildings (Lever House, U.S. Air Force Academy), then went by bus to see the new Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found 14-ft.-high executive offices with cherry-paneled walls on which hung such moderns as Picasso and Clyfford Still. On the east and west facades were 880 huge aluminum louvers geared...
...field of science and education, the University cannot risk being out-shone by the Nobel Prize Committee and will therefore grant a degree to Chen Ning Yang, present Loeb Lecturer in Physics here and one of the young Columbia professors who upset the Law of Parity last fall...
...from Mme. Lhevinne suggesting that he enter the Moscow competition. He wavered awhile; his managers at Columbia Artists were cool to the idea, wanted him to go instead on a speculative, pay-your-way tour of Europe. But everybody he talked to thought he would win, and his eyes shone with the notion of taking the gold medal in Rachmaninoff's Moscow...