Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Springfield, a training school for physical education majors, comes to Cambridge with a well-conditioned team boasting a record of close matches with former Crimson opponents. Strong in the weights where the Varsity is weak, Springfield has good men in the light classes, a captain who wrestlers at either 136 or 145, and a 230-pounder to round out its squad at heavyweight...
...chairman also ventured that in the light of these developments the government would turn back the mines to private operation before the present June 30 deadline. The miners and operators will have to negotiate a new contract before the end of June, he said, if the handing back is to take place ahead of schedule...
...William F. Russell of Teachers College (Columbia) added his answer. Said he: "The first job of education for democracy at the moment is to rip the sheep's clothing off the wolf-the Bear-and to let Soviet Communistic dictatorship stand revealed to the world in its true light...
...reason the postwar shell was too small was the Navion, North American's new four-place light plane (TIME, April 15), which accounts for 20% of the company's current business. So far, by shrewd selling tactics, Dutch Kindelberger has dodged the slump that has hit small planemakers. He is well aware that the upkeep of a small plane is much too high for most private flyers; the cost of operating a high-priced executive-type plane is too much for most companies. So the $7,750 Navion is being plugged-and sold-more as a work plane...
...Gregor's mouth Novelist Blunden has put three stories, in the manner of Gogol, Chekhov and Dostoevsky respectively. Interspersed with these are chapters of action: Ivan at the front, stopping a Nazi light tank 25 kilometers from Moscow; his lieutenant, Kostia, dying in a hospital after a double amputation; Rachel's son, Karl, starving in a concentration camp to which he had been sent for remarking that Hitler's strategy was "cunning." Karl's hatred of the regime that imprisoned him hardens into conviction...