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This waste does not bother the present-day farmer; the sunlight that falls on his fields is free. But commercial florists, whose greenhouses already blaze with artificial light to speed the flowering of their plants, must pay heavily for electric energy, and much of it is wasted on light that plants cannot use. For florists, and for housewives who grow African violets in dark apartments, Sylvania's special fluorescent lamp, called Gro-Lux, may mean a significantly smaller electric bill...
...dining tables. Within tea months, however, the administration announced that apparently the big thirst was only temporary: consumption was falling off and the College was losing money by supplying the few remaining quaffers. The liquor permit would be permitted to expire the following January, which it did, in a blaze of apathy, Harvard men turned back to milk at the Bick, and a few months later another perennial polltaker informed them that milk was indeed Harvard's favorite drink...
...California,.Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
...blaze of Alan Shepard's Redstone rocket was a bright light on a dark, cold war horizon. It was a first step in John...
...denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...