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

...obtain even fleeing glance at the book, which has not been on sale in Massachusetts since the first edition rolled off the presses, students who want to do a little light reading for pleasure's sake must first be interviewed by Foster M. Palmer, reference assistant in charge of the Reference Section, who holds one of the two keys to the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watch and Ward Blacklist Books Heavily Guarded in Widener Sate | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...light he looked ashen grey. His eyes were sunken, his skin flabby, his once thick mop of hair was grey, dry and scraggly. He looked his full 66 years. But his mien, as usual, was impassive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Horatius & the Great Ham | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Typical of the light Idler touch was the use of period music for this Jacobean comedy. An exceptionally competent quartet of string players, from the Harvard orchestra, under the guiding hand of arranger Maxwell Harvey '44, played snatches of suites by Purcell and Handel and a Lully concerto during the frequent changes of scene. Instead of the usual discordant effect of incidental music, last night's aided and abetted the harmonious tone of the staging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

...Razmara, Chief of the General Staff who announced the start of the military movement, said first casualties were light and that some Azerbaijans surrendered. Some machine guns and small arms were captured, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iranian Troops Enter Azerbaijan In Challenge to Russian Power; U.N. Defeats Gromyko Demand | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

...should be understood that participation at Chicago does not commit any group to join any national student union which subsequently might be established. Our role now is only aid in the formation of the organiziation. In the light, however of the democratic basis of the conference and the mandate which will be laid down for the constitutional committee--a mandate which will be wrought by all delleagtes--this college will probably find it to its advantage to join...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Fill the Gup | 12/10/1946 | See Source »

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