Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's figurative green light was flashed by Josephus Daniels, now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and an admiring friend of New Dealer Cardenas. The envoy of an unnamed third State called on Ambassador Daniels, warned him that President Cardenas was almost sure to make a speech rejecting the note in which Secretary Hull recently demanded immediate compensation for the seized properties, and offered to join the U. S. Ambassador in snubbing Orator Cardenas by staying away from his speech. Mr. Daniels refused this offer, genially let it be known that, since he understands hardly a word...
...more conceptions occurred in April, the first month of spring, and December, the Eskimos' visiting season, than in any other months. His conclusions: 1) whatever sexual debility may have been observed by early explorers is probably due to famine during the lone, cruel winter, rather than lack of light: 2) "it seems unwise to consider the possibility of the existence of definitely limited seasons of reproduction in other human groups . . . [since] much of the published material available is based on inadequate data...
...Discovery of the satellites was not only a telescopic feat, but a matter of practical importance to astronomy. As far back as 1675, Ole Roemer, Danish astronomer, noting that the eclipses of Satellite I varied with the distance of the earth from Jupiter, discovered the motion of light, and made the first calculation of its velocity...
...route to Palomar Mountain, Calif, are the 48 structural steel parts of the giant 200-inch telescope which will bring to focus four times as much light as the 100-inch telescope, make visible at least two billion stars now unseen...
...radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light or something white; as essential adjustments to environment "if the pedestrian of today is not to become too literally 'The Vanishing American...