Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the storm stopped. But for thousands of suburbanites, the memory lingered on. Among them was an airplane pilot, who had gone to his Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead...
...mule track by hardy Greek soldiers to achieve that end. How much would it take? No one was sure, but last week the U.S. Navy provided a clue. It announced that it was sending enough U.S. Marines to its Mediterranean force (the big aircraft carrier Midway, three light cruisers and ten destroyers) to beef it up to full normal manpower...
...were not for the shipping business, no one in his right mind would choose to live in the steaming, noisome port of Buenaventura. More than 350 inches of rain fall every year. Humidity is so high that shoes and clothing must be kept in "hot closets," where electric light bulbs dry the air, slow down blue mold. Malaria, typhoid and tuberculosis are endemic. Yet Buenaventura (pop. 15,000) is the busiest port in Colombia...
Fannie Hurst, high-styled writer of highly excited novels (Humoresque, Lummox), was out $5, but it could have been worse. New Yorker Fannie, briefly in Dallas, jaywalked through a traffic light and got stopped by a cop. As he made out a ticket he asked her name. She refused to tell ("didn't like his attitude," she explained later). She wanted to talk to the chief. When Fannie and the cop got to the station house, 1) the chief was "unavailable," and 2) she learned that she would give her name and pay $5 or go to jail...
...better teams in the East, whipped the Crimson 22 to 6, and went on to place fourth in the intercollegiates. This year all the men of the 1947 team except the 165-pounder are back at Morningside Heights, but the three top veterans have not competed for the Light Blue this winter. That Peterson might throw them against the Crimson is the issue...