Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. In a decision, long expected and accelerated by the recent war scare, the War Secretary announced that the Terriers from now on will be patterned after the Regular Army. They will retain their antiaircraft and other duties, but four divisions will be mechanized, equipped with more warlike teeth: light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns and tanks...
Other Factors. Any quantitative estimate must be corrected not so much for qualitative factors-although these are important-as in the light of how rapidly each great power is increasing its yearly or monthly production of reasonably effective fighting aircraft. In acceleration of aircraft production Germany has pioneered, led the whole European field and may still be leading, despite frantic efforts to accelerate production by the other great powers, notably Britain. Göring has been to the European war plane what Ford was to the car, and Lord Nuffield is only now entering the air race as Britain...
...quiet, simple atmosphere. Last summer he had five log cabins built as an experiment. One is a recreation centre. Eight students live and study in each of the others. But students are spared Abraham Lincoln's handicaps. They study not by firelight but by electric light, and they have steam heat, modern plumbing, maid service. They go to classes in the Law School with other students, retire to their cabins for reading and bull sessions. By their fellow undergraduates, who went last week to their housewarming, Duke's Lincolns already have been nicknamed "future Presidents...
Laboratory tests with discharge tubes containing air at low pressures, said Dr. Bailey, show that radio waves of gyro-frequency* would produce a strong glow in the ionosphere (electrified radio mirror) 60 or 70 miles up. The artificial display would be the same in fundamental principle (emission of light by electrically excited atoms) as natural auroras, or as the glow caused in neon lights by electric currents. The scientist pointed out that existing super-power installations, such as Cincinnati's 500-kilowatt WLW (see p. 66) or the Moscow station of equal power, were strong enough to induce glow...
...wave of "breaks," the Junior Varsity football team rode to a close 6-0 win over a light Dartmouth team on Soldiers Field yesterday. The Crimson team showed a marked superiority throughout the game but failed to follow up any scoring opportunities after they capitalized on some early mistakes by the Green...