Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more important that every student should be made to see the light. If impossible to convince them that ghost writing is unethical, then it is necessary to show them its impracticality and risk. Correctors should check up every unusual reference (the suspicious attitude is unfortunate but necessary), and by this vigilance and by the severity of the punishment inflicted, they should fill the hearts of would-be wrongdoers with great doubts. Moreover, professors should be wary of assigning the same essay topics several years in a row, because stacks of ancient essays have a habit of developing...
...existence of God," Dean Matthews believes, "really needs no argument. I am personally very firmly convinced that every person has a direct assurance of God. Often this intuition is not attended to and remains a dim light. There are not actual atheists; a man becomes an atheist by reasoning himself into atheism out of a natural belief...
After keeping his eye on a red light which determined the length of each tone, Heifetz said, "most of the time it was too long. I hope it was all right...
Images on ordinary transparent cellulose film are projected on a screen by a light behind the film. Images on non-transparent metal alloy film are projected by reflection from a light in front of the film. Major potentialities of metal alloy film outside the entertainment industry: mapmaking, microfilm reproductions of checks and documents, historical records for which cellulose film, which lasts only about 25 years, is unsatisfactory...
...children between the ages of five and 15 in Uganda, only one-third attend school, and of this number more than five-sixths attend mission schools. The sun may never set on Britain's empire, but it has disgracefully few native minds to which the light of education penetrates...