Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chances of reunion with A. F. of L., therefore refused to enter the Congress with his International Ladies Garment Workers (TIME, Nov. 21). Many another believed the existence of a "permanent" rival would chasten A. F. of L.'s more pugnacious leaders and make the Federation "see light." Some of the younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond his stand for Peace with Honor, appeal directly to A. F. of L. rank & filers to override William Green and re unite on C. I. O. terms. Mr. Lewis neatly suppressed that...
When the Japanese discovered that the guerrillas were pulling out the inner rail spikes, they temporarily stopped derailments by having a light train run over the line in the morning to spot missing spikes...
They carved wooden spikes, painted them iron-color, inserted them in place of the removed ones. The light Japanese trains crossed the rails without causing them to spread, but when the heavy munition cars came along the wooden spikes broke, spilled the cars on the trackside. This ruse has derailed over 30 trains south of Peiping in the last three months...
...journal Nature fortnight ago, Dr. Svedberg reported experiments on molecules of hemocyanin (molecular weight, 6,740,000 units), a blue pigment from the blood of mollusks. He and his co-workers at the University of Upsala bombarded the hemocyanin particles with quanta of energy in the form of ultraviolet light. Certain wave lengths of the bombarding radiation split the blood pigment molecules into halves. This was like splitting inorganic atoms in a high-voltage atom-smasher...
...neutron rays on cancer of human beings. The cyclotron whirls ions of heavy hydrogen (deuterons) between the poles of a huge electromagnet, then hurls them into a drumlike vacuum chamber. When they are charged with nearly eight million volts of energy, the ions are shot against a target of light metal, usually beryllium. The bullets knock out streams of neutrons, tiny particles about the same weight as protons but carrying no electric charge...