Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right light (preferably dim), gaunt, greying Lorenzo Emil Parry, 50, wore the austere look of a doctor of divinity. His manner was grave, his clothes sober and he affected rimless octagonal glasses. One starlit night last week, Lorenzo Parry strode confidently across the gothic, ivied quadrangle of Berkeley's Pacific School of Religion, smashed a window in the administration building and went to work...
...animals exposed to the atom-bomb blast and radiation in the 1946 Operation Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
...Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation. By 1905, McClure's, which claimed much of the credit for selling the public on T.R.'s spectacular cleanup, had climbed to a formidable circulation...
...proved to be a master of flowing figure composition, of painted space and painted light. He handled crowds and battle scenes with the flair of a D. W. Griffith, and pictured farmers and factory hands with so much natural rhythm that their work had the quality of a dance. But all this skill was just the foundation for the best virtue of Diego's art: an atmosphere of joyful reverence for life, which onlookers could remember long after the details of the paintings had faded from their minds...
...been in the doldrums for months, this week got some long-awaited good news. The Federal Reserve Board cut the cash required for stock purchases from 75% to 50% of the stock price, the first margin reduction in over two years. FRB said it was relaxing margins "in the light of the general credit situation"; credit on stocks was near an alltime low. In effect, FRB was saying in another way that the danger of inflation was about gone...