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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...breakfast-food manufacturer advertised an atomic bomb ring: "Actual atoms, splitting like crazy inside this ring! Look into lens-and socko! You'll see brilliant stabs of flashing light caused by released energy of atoms split to smithereens inside atom chamber." Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

What makes the moon light up? What is a bicuspid? If you had a buck rabbit, would Nellie be a good name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: What Is a Bicuspid? | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Self-taught and self-sufficient, he had always been somber and harsh. He had lived in Mexico City's red light district, painted its prostitutes and beggars in dark lurid colors. He found little to be joyful about in his own life or in the life about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Let Them Look | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...March production will be the first double bill the HDC has presented. "Waiting For Lefty" is a social dram of labor movement, and will be shown as a contrast to "The Ping-Pong Players," a light Saroyan love-story acted while the two characters play ping-pong on stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Starts Work On Three Spring Plays This Week | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

...Thomas's Freshman team, hit hard by the absence of several key men who dropped from the squad, will oppose a green Brown '50 team which is strong in the light classes, but like the Varsity, weakened by injuries and poor balance in several positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Teams Fight with Bears At Brown Tonight | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

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