Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant star, sailing through the sea of space, were a battleship a million miles from stem to stern, and some spark set off its powder magazine, the result would be something like what happens when a star explodes as a supernova. Supernovae are the mightiest celestial cataclysms known to man. Last week astronomers at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California reported discovery and observation of a super-nova in the distant island universe NGC 4273. Although about a dozen supernovae have been found by chance on photographic plates, the one announced last week was the first since 1901 to be watched...
Remaining behind to carry on are six good forwards and two good defense men. The Sophomore line of George Roberts, Johnny Mechem, and Ned Cutter, shows the possibility of a great career. With plenty of speed and teamwork they furnished the spark of the Harvard attack this year. The three Juniors who played this year will supplement the Sophomore line with offensive power. They are George Ford, a great center, Louis Carr, and Leo Ecker, whose severe leg fracture is apparently healing well. Stubbs will have one good veteran defense pair in Sophomore Traff Hicks and Russ Allen. Two others...
...with all these high-sounding recommendations, "Fellow the Fleet" is topid at best. The producers had every reason to expect that a conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...
...reality Harvard had the edge over the Tigers Saturday, but was unfortunate in that Gray failed to provide his customary spark. During the past few days the team as a whole has functioned better than at any time this season, for the first time showing itself as a potential threat to League leaders...
Santayana's Spark Sirs: As TIME's review of copious The Last Puritan (Feb. 3, p. 75) was characteristically pithy and succinct, so TIME-worthy were the picture-cover of the author and the intimate comments anent his banker-build and the routine of his days on that philosophers' Olympus where years ago he found his peace...