Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union was never like this." Soviet Army wives were unanimous in their verdict when they viewed the conveniences of ordinary German houses. "I'm never going home unless there is water from the wall and light from the ceiling of my dacha," exclaimed...
Philosopher Hocking was no more anxious than Kent Cooper to shout for the law. But he felt sure that if society-or the press itself-limited "the liberty to degrade," it would be doing a favor to the offenders as well as to itself. Lest his idea of a "light touch of government" sound too frightening to the press, Hocking drew an analogy to another kind of freedom which submitted to self-discipline and gained by it: "There is nothing freer, in our age, than the inquiry of science. Yet no one is free to be a scientist...
...compositions of his own, sitting up late alone evenings over a benedictine with mineral water in the hotel bar. Did he like Einem's opera? Klemperer was guarded. The music is agreeable, he said, but harmless and rather weak. Then he added: "The French Revolution was not light and agreeable but very serious-at least for those who were beheaded...
...pokes up in a blunt spire, then falls on its side and forms a sausage-like "slug." As soon as the slug is formed, it acts like a multicelled animal, crawls with comparative rapidity and good coordination. It even has senses of a sort, for it is attracted by light...
...Green Light. As a trade name, "California" is no California monopoly; it can be used even by New York firms. So ruled the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court dismissed a suit of 75 California manufacturers, who argued that clothes made in California were superior and that New York clothiers, using the California trade mark, were taking a free ride on the state's fair name...