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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before retiring as U. S. Attorney General, 68-year-old Homer Stille Cummings, class poet at Yale in 1891, confessed that he had written two volumes of poetry during his six years in office. Said he: "I doubt seriously that they will ever see the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass (Columbia Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). A well-known, light, agreeable suite by the most successful of contemporary U. S. highbrow composers. U. S.-born Conductor Barlow makes his phonographic bow, does an excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: January Records: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Married. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, 72, board chairman of Radio Corp. of America, onetime chief of staff of the American Expeditionary Forces in France; and Anne Lee Brown. 55, great-granddaughter of Light Horse Harry Lee; both for the second time; in Rapidan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Calvin Blackman Bridges. 49, famed geneticist, whose experiments with the fruit fly shed new light on the problems of heredity; after long illness; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...level local obstacles and brought all the utilities except big Nebraska Power Co. into line, Banker Myers rejoiced at a milestone which seemed to assure complete success for the "Myers Deal." The Federal Power Commission approved the sale to his clients of the Nebraska part of Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., second biggest in the State, for $20,195,991-a compromise figure considerably higher than FPC's cost valuation but slightly under Iowa-Nebraska's original cost valuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Myers Deal | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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