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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Erica Reed is due to make the Leftist Mediterranean ports next week, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's bombers and navy permitting. Shuttling somewhere between Villefranche, Tangier, Gibraltar and Naples were two U. S. destroyers and a light cruiser, which might possibly in some emergencies have something to say about interference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Underfed | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...strain can be perpetuated because, according to the Mendelian three-to-one ratio, only one in four of the young rats manifests the lethal defect. Four of the females littered last week, and the colony now numbers about 30. Since zoologists by studying such anomalies can cast more light on the mystery of heredity transmission in the chromosomes, several U. S. scientists have expressed great interest in Dr. Dunn's new boarders. He plans soon to ship specimens to other laboratories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Refugee Rats | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...sections of the work (dealing with specific items in the "plot") were drawn up by members of the first World Zionist Congress in 1897 was disproved by internal evidence. Most likely the Protocols were concocted by Tsarist secret police at the turn of the century. In the light of the political absurdities, the economic fantasies, the contradictory strategies outlined in the "plot," only the most naïve could sincerely believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Egregious Protocols | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...spirit of New Deal v. private utilities were four incidents of the week: 1) PWA agreed to lend an additional $3,279,000 for a municipal distributing system in Chattanooga (Commonwealth & Southern territory); 2) for $1,600,000, TVA and 22 cities bought West Tennessee Power & Light Co.'s distributing facilities; 3) in Collier's, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes predicted the doom of privately owned utilities if they continued their "blind and headstrong course"; 4) the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., accusing that big holding company of "conspiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Two-Price Plan | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...room of Malcolm Pirnie '39 and Thomas O. Hunter '39, located in F entry which is next to the main entrance to the House, was not locked. Pirnie's wallet containing $4 was in his trousers, on a chair next to his bid. The light fingered intruder managed to enter and leave the bedroom without arousing anyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEFT IN LOWELL HOUSE | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

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