Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several Harvard students and faculty members have identified themselves with a "Save the Marshall Plan" movement, and are seriously trying to spread the light to other colleges...
Your chart points out: "Light from earth would . . . return to earth in an estimated 300,000,000,000 light years...
This sentence indicates the "light year" to be a unit of time, whereas it is actually a unit of distance-as defined in another portion of the article...
...leadership. There hasn't been any lack of advice. It's been continuous and emphatic and ignored!" He listed the military help the U.S. had already provided since the arms embargo was lifted last May: 130 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 150 C46 transports and 80 light combat planes, 61,000 tons of surplus ammunition, $6,000,000 worth of air-force supplies (at 12½? on the dollar...
Pinings. But beneath the smooth, light surfaces of these stories there is a highly moral awareness of the inadequacies of contemporary life and the yearnings in every man for something better. When mocking the plight of a shopkeeper sentimentalist whose notions of marriage have been shaped by Romeo and Juliet but whose experience of it has been soured by a frigid, all too high-minded wife, O'Connor redeems the character from mere ridiculousness by noting that "he knew he could never be like any other sensible man, but would keep on to the day he died, pining...