Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney's office, Manhattan. He had a stepson, Wilmarth, who committed suicide in 1936. He and the first Mrs. Ickes also had two foster-children: a girl who is now Mrs. ReQua Bryant of Evanston, Ill., and Robert H. Ickes, 25, onetime WPA clerk, now employed by Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh, who last week eloped with Marcelle Charlotte Levine, 19, to Lisbon, Ohio, where they were married...
...good Jew travel in a commercial airplane on Saturday? Does he commit a sin if, on the Sabbath, he opens the door of an electric refrigerator in which a light automatically switches on? (According to the Law of Moses, no Jew may make a fire on the Sabbath. Good Jewish families get their ovens warm before the Sabbath begins and, because electricity is considered as fire, turn on whatever lights will be needed next...
...mass a few hundred times the mass of the sun? Why is it that nearly all stars and nebulae consist of the same chemical elements in roughly the same relative proportions as we find them in the sun? Where and how do the stars generate their stupendous energies of light and heat, and what is the ultimate fate of their radiation...
...make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated heart Till someone find us really...
...training men for government position. But the more immediate result will be the graduates of the School, the social engineers of the future. The eyes of the nation are focused on these men, and it is their job to carry the torch, to bring the light. It is up to them to be the trained city-managers, the heads of government bureaus, the professors of political economy of tomorrow. Their is the obligation to show the layman the best way to make democracy work...