Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tanks used by Russians and French in Leftist Spain, heavier than the Italian and German affairs of about ten tons used in Rightist Spain, these new experimental tanks were apparently designed to meet the military criticism that at present Germany's tanks are either too light to be good fighters or too heavy for great mobility...
...keep roaming dogs off his lawn, Arthur W. Burns, a Narberth, Pa. electrical engineer, strung a single wire around his property, a foot above the ground, attached the wire to his no-volt electric light system. When a trespassing dog grazed the wire last week, it got an electric shock, ran away yelping. Soon the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals heard about Mr. Burns's electric fence, asked for an injunction to compel him to remove it. Few days later the Philadelphia Electric Co. tested the fence, pronounced its amperage too low to harm dogs...
...newspapers," said he, "are doing an excellent job in informing the public of the latest scientific happenings. My quarrel is with the scientists themselves. With the present status of scientific literature as a background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation...
Sucks the latest drop of light...
...lyrics are written in a choosy, pressed-flower language that ensures entrance into many poetical anthologies, few human lives. But in spite of Natural History's, painstakingly sterilized language, the book has several narrow escapes-as in The Linden Boughs Are Bare, Proud, Unhoped-for Light-from being contagiously good...