Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question was who should spank the child, mother or father? Said seven-year-old Maryann Maskey: "The mother should do it. She's home most of the time and knows the child really tried to do good-an', an', besides, she can spank more lighter than the father...
Uncontrolled. In Phoenix, Ariz., Richard Sirmer hurled a bottle of lighter fluid at an annoying cat, tossed his flaming lighter after it, burned up the cat, burned down the house...
...taken out of the country), after being well briefed by the British resident agent of an international ring. On deplaning in Geneva, he exchanged his pounds for Swiss francs at the official rate of 17 Swiss francs per pound. He picked up a silk shirt and a silver cigaret lighter, reserved one Swiss franc for carfare. Before going on to France, he handed the remaining 1,200 Swiss francs to the ring's Swiss operative (France does not permit travelers to bring more than 1,000 French francs into the country...
...years ago, the Nazis had confiscated and burned millions of "unGerman" books. The war had destroyed hundreds of thousands more. Now the Allied order would eliminate millions more. Pessimists could see the day approaching when Germans would have nothing left to read except perhaps some of Grimm's lighter fairy tales. Cracked one British officer to a U.S. colleague: "You people might yet be able to convert the Germans to your comics...
Thompson recommends: 1) "focal walls"-catching pupil attention by painting the facing wall a darker or lighter value than the side walls; 2) "glare minimization"-equalizing lights and shadows by painting window walls in brighter colors than the opposite walls; 3) "correct room orientation"-cool colors (blue and green) for rooms with west or south exposures; warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for those with east or north exposures...