Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Self-Sufficiency. In 1945 Dr. Coffin retired as head of Union, but kept on preaching and writing. Last week, at 77, still a light to lighten that race of "men of adventurous spirit" he had pledged himself to foster at Union, he died-on Thanksgiving...
Last spring Nebraska's Governor Robert B. Crosby roamed about his state for 9,000 miles, handing out 30,000 "Operaton Honesty" lapel buttons (TIME, March 15). His aim was to encourage full, honest returns on personal property for taxation, and thereby to lighten the heavy tax burden on real estate. Last week Crosby's own State Tax Department totted up the year's personal property assessments, and found that the patient had failed to respond to the operation. Total personal property reported by individual taxpayers was $433 million, 15% below last year. Looking over the county...
...conductor slammed down his baton, grumbled "auf Wiedersehen," and walked out. Leading singers caught colds in the wet July weather. Technicians scrambled to lighten the murky stage so that the audience could see more of what was going on. After six weeks of preparing the season, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner last week raised the curtain on the opening production, their grandfather's Tannhäuser. Despite all crises, the production turned out topnotch...
When he went back into Stall 6 to resume his career, the Dancer was a noticeably different horse from the one of a year before. He had put on hardly any weight, but the 1,200 Ibs. had plainly hardened. The dark grey had begun to lighten around the flanks; the head was now more on the white side of grey than on the black (if he lives long enough, the Dancer will turn snow white). Standing, he had a massive, granite look?a sculptured masterpiece waiting for a pedestal...
Softer Water. An all-purpose water softener to lighten the housewife's home laundry chores was put on the market by the Harshaw Chemical Co. of Cleveland...