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Word: skylighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Umberto Primo. It's a cross between a railroad station and a church. You think you're in a museum till you see the bars and the shops. Once this Gallería had a dome of glass, but the bombings of Naples shattered this skylight, and tinkling glass fell like cruel snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homage to Naples | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Easter, José makes early and serious preparation, selecting his assistants with care. He needs 60 strong men, sober, to handle the bells in both towers. When all are in place, he takes his position on the cathedral roof midway between the towers, where he can look through a skylight at the cathedral altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Bellringer | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Blandings portrays the disillusions of the rural "bargain" from sewer to skylight-from the day when it becomes clear that the original dream-house, safely bought, is too old to warrant repair, to the day when the new dream-house at last rears its modern conveniences above a hideous reality of mortgages, and stands proudly in its field of bills. Mr. Blandings will be bitter balm for any optimist who has dreamed of drinking from his own clear spring-and has instead landed up with ". . . one Zuz-Zuz Water Soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: We Are Such Stuff | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Under the vast skylight of Briggs cage every afternoon these days, Coach Jaakko Mikkola is busy whipping his 150 man track tam into shape for short but strenuous indoor track program which begins January 15 with the Knights of Columbus in Boston...

Author: By Shane E. Riorden, | Title: Mikkola Trains Big Cinder Squad For Rough Winter Track Schedule | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

...eight weeks ago). Meanwhile, U.S. interrogators learned from one of Hitler's office helpers that the Führer took 5 cc.s of morphine daily, † Numerous body scars, a foot scar and an aluminum kneecap from World War I; a forehead scar from the time a bathroom skylight fell on him. He shaved off his beard last year without injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Cultural Pursuits | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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