Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past two months, three one-volume music dictionaries have seen the light. First to be delivered, the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians* was proudly fathered by Albert E. Wier with the collaboration of a 14-man editorial staff. A bouncing, 8¼-lb. infant, Wier's Encyclopedia made a few natural messes (misplaced Composer Robert Schumann, killed off very-much-alive Soprano Claire Dux), but otherwise bawled informatively along through 2,089 pages. In any ordinary year Editor Wier's weighty off spring might have taken first prize. But this week another lusty 8-lb. volume...
This privilege should also be extended to those who live, by choice, in "rat houses." The problem of accommodating these men would be small, as most of them belong to clubs, and the light that this new experience would bring into the narrow lives of these individuals defies estimate...
...beset with a scarcity of salt, sugar, matches, soap, etc., last week faced the prospect of didying her infant with her own platok (kerchief) because of an acute shortage of diapers. The Government organ Izvestia revealed that of the 1938 quota of 3,170,000 diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper blamed "inefficient organization...
...Light Positron Electron (Neutrino...
...Plus Minns Neutral Heavy Proton (Negative proton) Neutron Intermediate Positive barytron Negative barytron (Neutretto) Light Positron Electron (Neutrino...