Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had also admired conservative, 60-year-old "Calculatin' Coke." Coke looked and acted like "Mister Texas." As a youth, he had studied by the light of a campfire, and in the years since, he had been a wagon freighter, merchant, attorney, bank president, rancher. He had been in politics 34 years, was the only man who had been twice named Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. This summer, one of Coke's supporters urged him to get a helicopter, too. Said Coke: "No thanks, I'll keep my campaign down to earth...
...fact that Franklin Roosevelt made concessions to Russia at Yalta is well known. Last week in Collier's, Roosevelt's old and loyal friend, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood,* threw some light on the method and manner in which those concessions were made-particularly the deal made at the expense of China...
...Amsterdam's great white-plastered Wester Kerk the light is religious but not dim. Through its many plain-glass windows floods a clear, Vermeer-like light. Last week, at the closing service of the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, this revealing light showed every detail: ruff-collared Scandinavians; bearded, black-veiled Orthodox dignitaries; purple-cassocked Old Catholics; saffron-stoled representatives of the Church of South India; U.S. pastors in business suits and glittering spectacles. For the past fortnight, delegates from 147 churches in 44 countries-every major branch of Christianity except Roman Catholicism and the Russian...
...light shed by the assembly itself was equally revealing. This greatest church meeting since the Reformation could not even agree on a definition of the word "church...
...extremely tough time of it. A search of the Library of Congress' extensive catalogues showed that one G. Crosley had had a book, of poems published in 1905 (when Chambers was four years old) and one G. E. Crosley, a medical doctor, had written a pamphlet on ultraviolet light in 1936. There was no record of a "George Crosley" having broken into print any time, anywhere during Chambers' lifetime...