Word: alight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second telegram (unsigned) read: "If German or Italian planes fly over Levant, please refrain from any reply. If any of these planes alight on your fields, receive them and ask instructions. British planes must be attacked at any cost...
...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...
...white light flamed to full intensity on the instrument board of Eastern Air Lines Trip 21-New York to Brownsville-slim, 30-year-old Pilot Jim Perry knew that below him in the night was Stone Mountain. Not far from the radio fan marker that set the bulb alight, the unfinished stone faces of Gutzon Borglum's Confederate Memorial were sweaty with fog and rain. Atlanta's Candler Field was only twelve miles away...
Afire, one of her twin 1,150-h.p. motors out of action, her altitude ebbing, the crippled raider wobbled in over the waterfront at Clacton-on-Sea, an Essex shore resort (pop. 17,000) about 50 miles from London. When they heard her circling for a flat spot to alight, excited Clactonians forgot blackout rules, turned out to watch. Clacton firemen, ambulance drivers, air-raid workers, long rehearsed, were soon ready. Above, four Nazi airmen passed indescribable minutes as the flares they dropped showed no landing place. The plane came lower and lower...
...their travel through the land, Thalia and Mclpomene alight at Yale, Vassar, Princeton, and Dartmouth but never at Harvard. For the Muses of Comedy and tragedy know that here the drama is a stepchild, a poor relation, unwelcome guest. Harvard extends no open arms or vast theatres to the Mummer clan; from Bernhardt to Folies Bergere girl, the reception is a cold one. Frozen out though it is, the drama child yet struggles for existence. As the snows thaw and the leafy season approaches, the HSU and the HDC alike announce their spring efforts. Each of them has chosen exceptionally...