Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, Haganah regards defense in a different light. Where once defense meant merely protection against Bedouin raiders, it is now the defense of the lives and the futures of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees whose only hope is Palestine...
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who is a stickler for accuracy and integrity, was in an unwanted public row last week. His opponent was ex-Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace. The row was vital: it brought U.S. atomic policy into sharp debate, and it cast some highly interesting light on the character of Henry Wallace...
...Princeton, 15 years later, Dr. Dirac, who had forecast a particle, theorized about what happens when one particle strikes another. He selected the two simplest: the electron and the photon (unit of electromagnetic radiation, such as light). To explain how they interact, he ploughed through relativistic bafflements, covered a blackboard with lacy mathematics. Many listeners looked as if they had been hit on the head. Dirac himself seemed unsure...
Soon after, ailing Standard Gas went into reorganization, and V.E., who had been chairman of the board, stepped out in favor of Leo Crowley. The great days of financial legerdemain, when a man could run a few electric light bulbs into a utility empire, were gone for good. V.E. looked around for fresh territory. In the sprawling Cord Corp., which then included AVCO as a subsidiary, he found...
...Marmaduke! How dare you speak so of your betrothed.' " But even at 24, Shaw was already crusading (in this case against closed bedroom windows), commenting boldly on sex and sin, fluttering the gentry with open references to radicalism, atheism and the newfangled device called the electric light...