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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Oct. 7, 1935, you referred to our suburban paradise as "smug." . . . Largely because of resentment at this maltreatment, the Newton Community Forum was organized to bring light and truth into our congenial self-sufficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tonoyamamachi's Terror | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...other scattered Hearstpapers pay their way and appear safe for Hearst for a while: Detroit Times, San Antonio Light, Albany Times-Union, Syracuse Journal (and Sunday American), Boston Record (and Sunday Advertiser), New York Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Biding his time, he is working on another application of his system, an invasion of the phonograph field. Capable of a wider fidelity range than wax recordings, film sound tracks suffer virtually no deterioration, since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Miller's Way | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...suggestion that Harvard dig more deeply into its corporate packet and allocate funds for a new purpose, is always suspect on grounds of practicability--however laudable the project may be. Occasionally, however, the phenomenon of a constructive reform which is also inexpensive, comes to light; and in the need for a Center of Romance Civilization, such a combination is to be found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROMANCE IN THE RAIN | 3/10/1939 | See Source »

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