Word: lamped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supreme Court convention places the most recent appointee to the bench at the chair farthest to the left of the Chief Justice, who sits in the middle. Since 1916, Justice Brandeis' old bronze reading lamp has gradually moved closer to the centre. Now the oldest Justice on the Court, he sits on the left hand of snowy-bearded Charles Evans Hughes, who Brandeis privately tells friends is the best Chief Justice he has known. Since 1916, nothing closer to a further questioning of Justice Brandeis' fitness as a member of the Court has occurred than the President...
...possible but perhaps unconscious reason why more fellows--to answer the CRIMSON editorial of October 13--do not study in the Widener reading room is that it is improperly lighted. At night room is that it is improperly lighted. At night the desk lamps cast uneven light over the tables and it is difficult for anyone who doesn't place his book directly under the lamp to see without straining his eyes...
...glide as well as fly. . . . The following are my personal observations, made under nearly "laboratory" conditions. On Aug. 31 at Santa Barbara Island, the U.S.S. West Virginia, was at anchor in the lee of the island during the night. On the midwatch I had rigged a 200-watt cargo lamp, equipped with a reflector, at the side to direct boats to the quarter-deck sea-ladder. The light was 20 ft. above the water line, and pointed directly downward. At least two dozen flying fish of lengths varying from 18 to 24 in. were attracted to this lighted area...
...galangal root, all imported from the Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F.), is used in electric lamp filaments, radio tubes and high-speed tool steel...
Many a parent who confidently sits down at the parlor lamp to help his offspring tackle his homework finds that he has attempted more than he can handle. Published last week in Philadelphia was a convenient 236-page treatise, Algebra for Parents* calculated to save elders considerable embarrassment when asked to explain anything from simple addition to the binomial theorem. It was as ingratiating, discursive, and adroit as its author, a 59-year-old Philadelphia lawyer named Samuel Bryan Scott...