Word: floodlights
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...Shut off that sun," he ordered, pointing to a newsreel floodlight. He asked Lilienthal solicitously: "It bothers you too, doesn...
...fort's custodian had certain difficulties. For one thing, he had only one floodlight, and the flag flapped in darkness if the wind turned. For another, flags cost $17 apiece; due to increased wear & tear he was using one a week and rapidly running out of funds. But the final lines of Dr. Beck's letter made it clear that there could be no hanky-panky about the matter...
...investment banker, Samuel K. McConnell Jr., 42, to succeed a fellow Republican. The city's heterogeneous Second District (including a Negro section and fashionable Rittenhouse Square) has been edging back toward the Republican column in recent elections. Last week it replaced a Democrat with Joseph M. Pratt, 52, floodlight manufacturer and G.O.P. ward boss...
Groaned Rector: "Let's get going." In the wardroom, about the size of a Pullman drawing room, Rector stretched out on the table beneath a floodlight ordinarily used for loading. The pharmacist's mate and assisting officers pulled on reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze. From end to end the submarine, riding deep under the surface, was tense. Men stood by the diving planes to keep her steady. In the galley the cook kept water boiling in his kettles for sterilizing...
...Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony never sounded more lush and verdant. Studio audience, radio listeners and critics were happy. The reverberations were all they should be; radio's biggest concert hall had at last become musicianly. Explained Stokowski: ''We found a way to floodlight sound...