Word: light
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a competition for second assistant manager will begin today with a meeting of all candidates at 5 o'clock in the Freshman Athletic Building. The competition which is open to all Sophomores in good standing will last until May 20. Ross pointed out that the competition would be light with practically no work until after vacation. The winner will be assistant manager next year and manager in his Senior year. The runner up in the competition will be manager of the second team next year...
...light of subsequent events, it is clear that the wicked widow thus flayed is Donna Barone, relict of the Fascist diplomat who began negotiations on behalf of Signor Benito Mussolini with the Holy See. She it was who divulged to foreign correspondents in Rome the half-truths which caused half the newspapers of the world to print maps showing that the new Papal State would be some six times larger than has turned out to be the case...
...city which was already old when her own rich and extensive Stockholm was founded upon mud flats and granite in 1255 by Birger, Jarl (Earl) of Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall, in a palace blazing with made-in-Sweden light bulbs, the preliminary, pre-nuptial ball was given by Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Over from Oslo for this event dashed Norway's spruce Crown Prince Olaf. This time he came openly and gaily, not as he clandestinely used to come (while courting Princess Martha) with...
Astounding it was to U. S. physicians, patients and therapeutic lamp manufacturers to learn that the British Medical Research Council last week decried the use of light treatments. There are two general kinds of light used in medicine-heat-producing, generated by carbon filaments; and ultraviolet ray (artificial sunlight) producing, generated by a carbon arc, by a mercury arc, or by special filaments lighting through quartz. Undoubtedly such lights have done good. This is particularly so of the ultraviolet light, used to overcome rickets by direct exposure of puny children...
...British Medical Research Council, an authoritative organization, did proclaim last week that "when conditions between children with and without [light] treatment is equalized, the result of light treatment is wholly negative." The only difference, declared the Council, between light treatment and mustard plasters, was that plasters were cheaper...