Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faculty approval for the latest in a long list of undergraduate political organizations was granted yesterday as the Harvard Youth for Democracy received a green light from University Hall...
...problem is an old one, almost as old as railroads themselves. When the roads first started expanding after the Civil War, they charged whatever the traffic would bear. In the South & West, where roads were few and traffic was light, they fixed high rates. By the time the ICC got around to codifying the rates in 1928, the regional pattern was set and the ICC accepted it. In the South, rates averaged 37% over the East; in the West...
...home a statement by President Bierut and articles from the Polish press, saying that Poland is now able to feed herself without foreign relief. That was not correct. "Articles in the Polish press," explained Sokolowski, "are destined strictly for home consumption. Naturally, we put the situation in a better light than it is, in order to calm our people, who are nervous...
...Smear. Recently Maurice Sterne made the porch of his Provincetown cottage into a studio, and concentrated his attention on the sea out front. His new paintings were as salty and wet as the breakers, and they had the same compelling evanescence; each one seemed made of wind, water and light, ready to shatter and collapse in an instant...
...films for the answer to a hard historical question: Why did the Germans so readily accept Hitler? "Their strange preparedness for the Nazi creed," Dr. Kracauer has concluded, "must have originated in psychological dispositions stronger than any ideological scruples. The films of the pre-Hitler period shed no small light on the psychological situation...