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Word: glaring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as at opening of opera or cinema, news photographers whanged away to the giddy glare of flash bulbs. They caught tycoonery (see cuts), failed only to re-record the serious things which the tycoons had come for. During their sessions they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Before me, filling the East and the South of East, there lay a latitude of fog, a world of it, and out of the expanse of vapor there shone a glare this side of the sun, now rising in obscurity; and from the region of this singular light came the crying of the waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...commit on that poignant last line of Kiss Me Again. You may think she has screamed as loudly as human lungs can manage all the way through the chorus, but you're wrong: she still has something special left for a flag finish. Here she goes. (Eyes glare.) 'Keesss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Croon | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...best methods of dealing between nations, diplomatic usages, conventions, complacency, the Third International, the advocates of appeasement, the believers in Hitler as a bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed, spellbound and wondering, at the Führer's mighty handiwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War or No Munich | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside one, did not get in. At the spectacular Aldershot Tattoo, General Gamelin in a white-plumed hat took the salute while tanks, armored cars, caterpillar trucks, motorized antiaircraft units whirled past in the glare of searchlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gamelin & Gort | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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