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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young, last year's stroke of the Big Red, has been moved back to six. This would not be so remarkable but for the fact that he is light and therefore a strange...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Fast Rowing of Cornell Navy Brings Crew Major Opposition | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...give urban people decent places to live. In the U. S., the Federal Housing Administration has given great impetus to individual home builders, stimulating architects to think in terms of small-house design. Newly available to them and the public last week were two important sources of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brass Tacks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Curtis Institute of Music presented to the public two one-act operas. What the critics came to hear was Le Pauvre Matelot, by one of the most famous of French modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Opera | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...bomby Sunday afternoon, Mona Gardner sat in a Shanghai park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intelligence Report | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...contain a delicate but virile just position of tones. Great technical facility can be readily seen in his "Indian Town," a fine example of the effect of the wants color medium when used in its proper sphere which is especially appropriate when an effect of many colored variations of light and dark is desired...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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