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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of such facts it was last week possible to pick the election returns which on Nov. 8 will be significant news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: 39760 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...shelves, cattle and poultry in the yard and a picture of Il Duce on the farmhouse wall. The farm, valued at $2,250, and the truck must be paid for over a 35-year period. The Government has guaranteed to purchase all the crops. When asked why electric light has not been more widely installed in Libyan villages, Governor General Italo Balbo explained: "The birthrate is always highest where there is no electric light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fourth Shore | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Istanbul's mosque-capped hills were ablaze with light for a three-day and three-night celebration last week. Chains of brightly colored bulbs stretched from minaret to minaret of the treasured Mosques of Ayasofia, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mohammed the Conqueror. Below, in the four-mile stretch of the Golden Horn the Turkish fleet lay at anchor, with ship searchlights playing nightly over the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Atat | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...dispatch yesterday from the News revealed that speculation must continue to run riot on Silliman's structural possibilities, for even the building architects, Messrs. Eggers and Higgins, successors to the late great John Russell Pope, were unable to shed any light towards a solution of this mystery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Plans New 10th Unit in College Plan; Fight Over Architecture Looms | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

That the football pool which swept Harvard for three weeks and collapsed last Saturday was engineered by a 1931 Crimson grid star and not by notorious heads of other racketeering rings in Boston came to light yesterday, an student agents began paying back funds collected before the weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER GRID STAR IS BETTING RACKET HEAD | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

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