Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole of Los Angeles' downtown area shuddered. A light plane flying ten miles away was jolted by a sudden disturbance of the air. A florist, five miles away, heard a dull boom and saw the petals of his peach blossoms flutter to the floor. The 27-story tower of the earthquake-proof city hall shivered; windows crashed and tinkled for blocks around...
...itinerary that stretched from London to Ankara, including Russia in time for the Moscow conference. But what made bigger news was unconventional Candidate Stassen's choice of a traveling companion: Philadelphia's onetime G.O.P. City Committee Chairman Jay Cooke, banker, onetime senatorial aspirant, and a leading light among Pennsylvania's Old Guard...
...Light & Dark. Where does France go from here? TIME'S Paris Correspondent Andre LaGuerre summed...
...British press was deluged with letters protesting the speedy way that culture had been dumped out the window when cold came in the door. To save power during the coal crisis, the BBC had consolidated the popular Light (comedy-variety) and Home (slightly more serious) broadcasting programs. The cultural Third Program, which had a listener-audience of only about two million, was quietly done...
Behind this simple procedure is a radical innovation. In conventional photography, the light which comes through the lens forms a "latent image" in the silver bromide of the film. A proper chemical "developer" darkens this image by turning its silver bromide into black metallic silver. In the negative, the lightest parts of the scene photographed show up blackest, the dark spots show up lightest. To reverse the negative and get a print, the photofinisher goes through the whole dark-into-light process again...