Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They made K. lie down against a rock. Then one of them drew out "a long, thin, double-edged butcher's knife, held it up and tested the cutting edge in the moonlight. . . . With a flicker as of a light going up, the casements of a window [in the house] suddenly flew open; a human figure, faint and insubstantial, at that distance and at that height, leaned abruptly far forward and stretched both arms still farther. Who was it? A friend? A good man? Someone who sympathized? Someone who wanted to help? . . . Was help at hand? . . . Where...
...imagined effects of large scale Jewish immigration be under such careful UN scrutiny. The results of such immigration would go a long way towards determining whether partition, a new mandatory power, or some other solution, would be best for Palestine. It is very possible that, in the light of America's new policy of halting further Russian expansion, the Arab threat to raise Middle East havoc as an answer to Jewish immigration is no threat at all. But despite all speculation, UN failure to deal with the refugee problem at once will convict it of its greatest weakness to date...
...guiding light of the Harvard Orchestra, the Sodality was also functional in creating the first Professorship of Music in America; assisted in founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and gave a parental nod to the Harvard Glee Club. During their first years together, members vocalized as often as they scraped G-strings and on the first anniversary of the Sodality, "a number of appropriate songs were sung.... The greatest order and harmony were observed." But constant mixing of song and sonata had its drawbacks, and in 1858 the Glee Club broke away, leaving its parent organization to roam its scales alone...
...included an original student work and an ancient suite by Purcell. The suite, a selection from "The Virtuous Wife," is as faithful a standby as its title would suggest, and was unearthed from a manuscript in the British Museum by Conductor Malcolm Holmes. Other little-known works brought to light in the past have been "The Blessed Damosel" and "Variation on 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,'" the last-named written especially for the Orchestra. But despite its penchant for straying off the beaten soundtrack, the Sodality has developed a reputation for artistic presentations, and is now safely removed from...
...articles is a factual report by two Scandinavian student visitors to Budapest, of conditions among those trying to get a college education. Leaving out graphs and generalizations, the report has passages such as, "The students often live 10-16 together in a room, with broken windows, no heat, poor light. In one college we saw a girl student lying ill with fever in a dank room where the temperature was only 2 degrees...