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

...Many a nervous, nonpresidential heavy smoker takes only a few puffs per cigaret. Got a light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Under the Joseph Urban sky of this 2½-mile-high city, the lampposts are gaily decorated with huge red, green and yellow rosettes with strings of light bulbs between. These were put up to celebrate Bolivia's Independence Day. The ornaments are in grotesque contrast with the spirit of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Aftermath of a Coup | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Ardent atheists with a proselyting itch got a greenish light from the Federal Communications Commission. Disbelievers, the FCC ruled, were entitled to all the radio time they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Air for Atheists | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...Eternal Light (Sun. 11 a.m., NBC). A half-hour adaptation of Racine's religious Athalie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...light signal for a foul flashed on the tote board. By all the rules involving dogfights, it should have been declared no race and rerun later. The crowd of 26,000 expected just that. Instead the judges announced Rossmir Biddy as the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dog Fight | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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