Word: shone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer vacation! All through the school years these words once shone with dreams of long and lazy days -fish-jumping, hammock-reading, fun-filled days of time to do everything, and no need to do anything at all. But to contemporary boys and girls, summer means something else again. Even for the gold coast types with sports cars to burn, loafing is Out and working...
Rain had threatened all morning, but just before game time the sky cleared and the sun shone brightly. Responding to the change in weather, the varsity's offensive surge completely overpowered the Tufts' stickmen. Lou Williams led Harvard with five goals and one assist for the day, followed closely by Tink Gunnoe with one goal and six assists...
...shone on Soldiers Field for a full five minutes this afternoon--6:15 until 6:20, and it was in these five minutes that the varsity baseball team finally broke an eleventh inning tie and pushed the winning run across the plate, defeating Boston University...
...Jahren. Gttingen's scientific star shone in the early 19th century under Astronomer Carl Gauss, one of the key founders of modern mathematical analysis and hence of modern physics. In the 1920s Physicists Max Born and James Franck taught on Gottingen's Bunsenstrasse. named after Alumnus Robert Bunsen, inventor of the burner...
...recently-molted cockroach sports a shiny new chitin shell, but he's still an ugly bug. The tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...