Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Holmes' time structures housing the Cambridge Electric Light Co. and the Church Street Garage have grown up on the nether limits of the burying ground, and a large Texaco gasoline sign stares down on it with almost sacrilegious familiarity, but this small plot has outlived many such indignities in its time. In 1700 the caretaker was allowed to pasture his sheep here and in more recent years, on Saturday mornings, it made an ideal wild west setting for dramatic gun play after the horse opera at the U.T. During the administration of Roosevelt II, however, measures were taken...
...Basketball League, or to give it its formal designation, the Eastern Intercollegiate League, approaches its mid-seasonal mark, Columbia's Light Blue Cagers look suspiciously as though they could purr their way to the championship...
...five wins and no losses to their credit, the Lions' roar has already defeated to defeat every League team but the Crimson. On paper the Lions still need to cop five out of their remaining seven games for the pennant, but the money boys are solidly behind the Light Blue five built around towering center Walt Budko...
...moon shone bright over Portland, Ore. and a young man named Thomas Kelly sat on a campus bench reading Shelley by the light of the moon. To the cops who saw him there, this seemed highly suspicious conduct. Kelly didn't think his conduct needed any defense or explanation and he couldn't produce a draft card. So they jugged him. Said one policeman: "See if you can take that, Lord Byron...
...business" side, where the executive sits, there are (among other wonders): a radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...