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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Haydn and Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas (Jacob Feuerring; Timely: 10 sides). Six light, early classics, well-performed, recorded like real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Tall, handsome Charles Simonton McCain, who has headed both the smallest and the biggest U. S. bank, last week resigned his presidency of $577,000,000 United Light & Power Co. to become a director and officer of Dillon, Read & Co., currently the most successful Wall Street underwriting firm. When Charles McCain graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1904, he entered banking in his native Arkansas, soon founded his own bank in McGehee with $1,000 capital which he ear ned in his pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: New Jobs for Old | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Everywhere. Sometimes he is an old man, worried, half-sick, mixed up in vulgar and unpleasant affairs, sometimes his dreams spring back to his youth when he was, in Critic Wilson's words, "carefree, attractive, well-liked ... as dawn approaches, as he becomes dimly aware of the first light, the dream begins to brighten and to rise unencumbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Give Off Faint Light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley, Astronomy Head, Announces Identification of Gigantic Star Clusters | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Despite their enormous size, the new systems give off a very faint light. Harvard's finding of the groups was a matter largely of good fortune, resulting from the fact that an abnormally sensitive photographic plate chanced to be focussed on the objects on very clear nights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley, Astronomy Head, Announces Identification of Gigantic Star Clusters | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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