Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer: When God said "Let there be light," there was light...
...California is "Let There Be Light." Twenty years ago a campus gag was: Question: What is the difference between God and the University of California...
There was no mistaking the splashy flowered dresses, the flashy painted faces of the "first class" girls from Peiping's red light district. More than 300 of them ("tripping daintily by like so many pretty birds " one newspaper reported) flocked into the Great Continent Theater. Why this concentration of purchasable beauty, onlookers asked each other, and so early in the morning...
...never to be quoted by a newspaper reporter. Faced with this impasse the material for this column was gathered with some sparring and tilting. The quest for truth was not enhanced by Bob's quiet, modest nature when discussing his past. Some people, for instance, think 175 pounds is light for pro football. When asked, Bob admitted that he might have been a little lighter than average, but he added that he outweighed his running mates, McLean and McAfee...
...abundance of personalities makes the book an entertaining study. They participate in significant and generally amusing incidents that are friendly even when they show the Bostonians' aplomb in a seamy or mundane light. Mr. Amory does not commit the error of falling into satire, nor does he treat his subject with the glazed veneration that a member of the breed might easily have done. Instead, in the chapter entitled "Change and Status Quo," he sums up the pros and cons of having such a group, and indicates the transformations that time has wrought...