Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentration that each should be "provided with comprehensive knowledge and systematic training in a particular field," the present plan can be successfully revised. This consideration is all pertinent, since in these troublous times the undergraduate, whether scholarly or not, is seriously questioning the value of his education in the light of his future...
...airplane is now of alarming proportions. (Head resistance increases as the square of the speed, e.g., if speed is tripled, drag becomes nine times as great.) Results for German designers: the in-line engine, now cooled with ethylene glycol (Prestone) instead of water, has been made more compact, as light as the radial, much more adaptable to streamlining, since its cylinders extend back on a long crankshaft instead of spreading out like a fan. It can be tucked as neatly into airplane design as a sword into a scabbard...
...Testament from Hebrew into Greek (the Septuagint), tinkering with the Holy Bible has been a prime occupation of scholars. The King James Version, most familiar to the English-speaking world (ordered by the late Queen Elizabeth's pious, witch-hunting successor), is a 17th-Century revision in the light of then available Greek and Hebrew texts. The Revised Version (1881, 1885) was meant to bring the Bible up to date; the Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible of a few years ago did so even more thoroughly. Last week, in Chicago, Professor William Louis Bailey of Northwestern University revealed that...
...country, in my opinion, has long needed a light and cheerful review of events in Washington ... I congratulate you . . ." wrote Franklin Roosevelt to Publisher-Editor Harry Newman in the first issue of Senator, a new magazine of Capital chitchat out last week. Modeled partly after the New Yorker, partly after Judge (which Publisher Newman also runs), Senator, in its first appearance, rambled like the garrulous old Senatorial barfly in plug hat and string tie that Norman Rockwell painted for its cover...
...Good 13 Powder Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 46 New powder Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 13 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Snowing Good 5 Franconia Notch, N.H. Snowing Good 29 New powder Fryeburg, Mc. Cloudy Good 13 7 in. powder Greenfield, Mass. Fair Fair Light snow Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Fair 4 to 13 in. in trails Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 12 5 in. dry over crust Lincoln, N.H. Snowing Good 15 7 in. new on 8 in. old Littleton...