Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalled until late February by a serious financial tangle which was finally cleared up by a Council investigating committee, the Red Book staff has been working steadily on the 136-page book since the green light was given...
...midnight, in his organ voice, the Patriarch chanted, "Christ is risen, Christ is risen," while the choir and the 7,000 took up the refrain. Light from the Patriarch's candle, touched quickly to a dozen others, spread through the nave. Gorgeous in his robes of silvered silk and wearing a pearl-and-diamond crown, the Patriarch swung his fragrant censer, blessed them...
...clothing is higher in many places. Gas ranges and refrigerators are up sharply. The used-car market shows that customers will pay through the nose if they are choosy. Light cars dating from the early '40s are $200 to $350 above the former ceilings-at what had been black-market prices. But vintage models of the early '30s rust in the lots, and heavy cars of any age are at a heavy discount...
...unpleasant incidents" Durocher had been involved in (TIME, April 14). All of these had happened before the spring season began. Said the New York Times's Columnist Arthur Daley: "The Lip is in a comparable position to the chap hauled into traffic court for driving through a red light and then being sentenced to the electric chair. If this is the Chandler type of justice, then the club owners could make a good investment for themselves by buying up the remainder of his [$250,000] contract...
...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle...