Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost time to hang up the trunks." That was about a month ago, when he was feeling his age. At 33, he was an old man among boxers, even though the sportwriters had just crowned him 1947's Fighter of the Year. Last week, as Light-Heavyweight Champion Gus Lesnevich climbed into the ring at Madison Square Garden, plenty of eyes in the house were on his opponent-Billy Fox. Fox was only 22, and had won 50 of his 51 fights by knockouts. Fox, everybody said, looked like a possible contender for Joe Louis' wobbly heavyweight crown...
Feeling young again, Gus guessed that after one more light-heavyweight fight he would go gunning for the heavyweight crown. After all, Bob Fitzsimmons was a Methuselah of 35 when he became heavyweight champ back...
...disgust kept him in high school until he was 21 because "except for drawing, the subjects were a nuisance," and since then he has almost always managed to avoid steady work. His new temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle Art Museum...
...takes a lot of punch to knock them out. Before the 4,000-ton cyclotron developed sufficient punch, the only mesons in captivity had been trapped in the wild. Dr. Carl Anderson of CalTech found their characteristic tracks in a cloud chamber. Other scientists found two types, heavy and light, in photographic plates exposed on high mountains. All had been formed by cosmic rays, the enormously powerful particles that strike down out of space. No man-pushed particle was strong enough to engender a single meson...
Exactly how the novel managed to see the light of day at the very moment when Hitler was preparing to overrun Europe remains a mystery. Some critics have speculated that Juenger's close connections with German army leaders saved his book and his skin; others felt that the Nazi censors were unwilling to admit they had been asleep at the switch. In any case, On the Marble Cliffs remained a thorn in the Nazi side throughout the war. When the Russians were attacked, they translated and published it-though its denunciation of tyranny fits more than one foot...