Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acquaintances of the arrested youth, however, were able to shed some light on his possible pressing need for funds. They recalled that he had been keeping "rather steady company" with a millionaire's daughter, now a college co-ed, for many months...
...from such fun & games was a grisly speech by Major General Curtis E. LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. The future looked black to General LeMay, except for deadly flashes of atomic light. "Our frontier now lies across the Arctic wastes of the polar region. . . . The war will start with bombs and guided missiles falling on the U.S. . . . Any of the principal industrial nations can, by say 1950, develop a controlled air weapon that will deliver several tons of explosives with great accuracy over ranges of 3,000 to 6,000 miles...
...hodge-podge makeup common to all ladies' magazines, came out with what is still called Three Magazines in One. Each section-News and Fiction, Homemaking, Style and Beauty-had its own cover, and ads appropriate to it inside. Then he went after the taboos that governed the sweetness & light fiction of women's magazines. He bought a story about adultery (Stone Blunts Scissors, by Sara Yarrow), in which the adulteress got the man. McCall's got 5,000 letters on it, most of them praise...
Irascible, fact-conscious Kenneth Roberts, a heckler of historians and probably the most widely admired of U.S. historical novelists, is said to have spent six years on Lydia Bailey, grubbing details from archives, translating French sources, writing and polishing the text. Even so, Lydia is a pretty light-weight performance. But the first printing (including Literary Guild) is rumored to be 1,000,000 copies. Hollywood's 20th Century-Fox has already bought the story for $215,000. As a narrative it lacks the fire and dramatic punch of Northwest Passage, the unity and cogency of Oliver Wiswell...
Some startling facts have been brought to light through Leet's seismograph tests. In order to break window glass by concussion, charges must be fired in the open air, a most impractical thing in quarrying operations. Window glass must be subjected to pressures of 1 1/2 lbs. per square inch to break it, whereas air pressure at a few hundred feet from a quarry blast are 1 to two-thousandths of a pound per square inch, the same as those produced by a light summer breeze...