Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cloudy Good 9 Tamworth Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 18 4 new Warren, N.H. Fair Good 17 Dry Powder Waterville, Mc. Cloudy Fair 6 3 in. Powder on 3 in base Waterville Valley, N.H. Fair Good 18 Powder Whitefield, N.H. Cloudy Good 12 Dry Wolfeboro, N.H. Cloudy Fair 8 Light Woodstock, Vt. Cloudy Good 8 Laurentian Mts., Can. Fair Good 32 Quebec (Lac Beanport) Can. Good...
...activities of the confidence man first came to light when banks on Harvard Square complained when payment was stopped on a number of checks drawn to the order of a "Peter Geer." Presumably the drafts were stopped after students were told by their tailers that the "imported goods" were fraudulent and many times over-priced...
...peace is not assured." In the mouth of anyone but the President of the United States, these words would constitute a magnificent understatement. But spoken by him, and addressed to London and Berlin via short wave, they contain far more than appears on the surface. And considered in the light of what has very recently become American public opinion, the President's entire treatment of foreign policy and defense in his annual message to Congress is pregnant with meaning...
Among the undergraduate literary lights in the bright Harvard Class of 1910, Heywood Broun was a mere twinkle. He wrote for the highbrow Advocate, but was not elected to its board. His serious classmate Walter Lippmann made the heavy Monthly (now defunct). Rustic Stuart Chase wrote nothing but routine essays for professors. Ebullient John Reed made both the Monthly and the whimsical Lampoon. Beefy Hamilton Fish Jr. was in the literary Signet Society, partly because he was football captain. Brightest light of all was Thomas Stearns Eliot - he was taken into the two literary clubs, Stylus and Signet, was secretary...
...personal side, Greville's diary is interesting chiefly for the light it throws on his curious motive for writing it. Despite His aristocratic connections,his wealth, his membership in the Privy Council, his welcome to the most exclusive social, political and intellectual circles, Greville believed himself shallow-minded, frivolous, dissipated. His sober diary was a means to improve his mind, a penance for his sins...