Word: light
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major airports, 20 big secondary landing strips, 43 radio ranges, 46 weather observation stations. There are 582 commercial airplanes registered within the Territory-there had been only 99 in 1940, 157 in 1945. More important, many are efficient, multiengined aircraft. The bush pilot is still making medicine with his light plane, still landing passengers and freight in improbable corners of the country. But the DC-3 and the DC-4 do the big business, droning unconcernedly over mountains which early flyers had crossed only with the aid of rabbits' feet and gilded baby shoes...
...made homeless when the rain-choked Des Moines River burst its banks. Flash floods in Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri and Oregon killed six people and sent refugees fleeing for high ground. Near Rutland, Vt., an over taxed power dam burst, left 500 homeless, 18,000 without light, drinking water...
...letter won his teacher a plump prize: $2,500 to improve her own education, a trip to Chicago to appear on the Quiz Kid program, and the title of "Best Teacher of 1947." Miss Neal was delighted-"not so much for myself, but because of the favorable light it places on Mississippi." Eddie was pretty happy, too: he got $100 for his heartfelt, well-spelled praise. The three judges (Northwestern, Michigan and Notre Dame professors) sifted through 33,000 letters, spent a day in the classrooms and homes of the likeliest nominees...
What's the News? Back from his light lunch, McCormick phones Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney. They talk over the news and the Colonel's slants on the news. The rest of the afternoon the Colonel reads his mail, takes tea & toast, researches his weekly radiorations on forgotten U.S. heroes, sends off memos (signed "R.R. McC.") down his chain of command, and summons department heads to the sanctum. They have learned that it is well to lay a problem crisply on the line, get his decision, which is almost invariably prompt, and get out fast...
Last week, before the biggest (130,000) crowd that any U.S. sport event brings together, the two drivers slid into the cockpits of Lou Moore's identical light-blue racers. The field of 30 speedsters, their temperamental engines sucking in blends of gas and alcohol, snarled through the first lap at 122 m.p.h...