Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose speed was far faster than light...
This is the correct version as quoted to me by its author, [the late] Professor A. H. Reginald Buller, F.R.S., etc., etc., onetime professor of botany at the University of Manitoba. . . . This world authority on fungi found enough time . . . to write many such light verses, some of which were inspired by what he saw through a high-power lens. Not a little of this time was spent in trying to get credit for the above, which first appeared over his name in Punch. In his own words: "I don't mind the credit going to Bishops, Wits, Established Authors...
...shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
Within earshot of workmen's tools, the master of the White House spent a week heavy with routine work, light of newsmaking action. He was clearly pessimistic over getting the kind of OPA bill he wants out of the Senate-House stalemate. He took a whack at Congress by predicting that prices would go higher without a price control...
Wisconsin's Republican Representative Frank B. Keefe (who signed the majority report along with California's Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart) took a middle ground in a supplemental opinion. Items: the Democratic majority had tried "to throw as soft a light as possible on the Washington scene"; General George Marshall and Admiral Harold Stark "must bear their full share of responsiblity"; the U.S. people must be better informed of the course of U.S. diplomacy than they were...