Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
...buoyant "okay" as he left the plateau airport at Miles City, Mont., his voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City in a light rain, westbound for Billings, both engines of their Lockheed Zephyr had, for some reason still unexplained, quit. Husky square-jawed Pilot Chamberlain, gallantly trying to get back to the field, went down in a gulch, 1,200 feet short. The ship, striking at fearful speed with a 25-mile wind...
...Godwin and Walker are by no means the first to "freeze" rapid motion on photographic film. Perhaps the most famed high-speed photographer in the U. S. is Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who for some years has used stroboscopic (intermittently flashing) light to take 6,000 pictures per second...
...case of the University vs. tutoring schools is a long, fifteen-round bout in which, for the past few years, no very decisive blows have been struck. Outside the University, Manter Hall School last year landed a light left when they sued Time Magazine for libel for saying they did ghost-writing and were awarded all of six cents. The blow was only important in so far as it established the legal position of the school in relation to the University. Yesterday, however, the University connected with a sharp right when a bureau offering a review in criminal law called...
...first cases on record of University action against tutoring schools came to light yesterday, as a notice appeared on the Law School bulletin board announcing that a school's tutoring review had been cancelled at the request of Law School officials...