Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort since he entered College last November with the Class of '48b, fresh from Tabor Academy, where he had copped the national interscholastic shot-put title. Previously during the past term, he had won easily at Tufts, Andover, and Exeter, switching in the two prep-school meets to the lighter 12 pound schoolboy shot...
...strike-anywhere type, will be mainly what the civilian smoker will get. There will be 175 billion of them available this year, plus 125 billion book matches. Thus, statistically, each of the 100 million civilians old enough to play with matches could get 3,000 for the year. Lighters are reducing match consumption. Last week Ronson lighter officials estimated that there are some 40,000,000 lighters in use, including those in the armed forces...
...field commanders, said General Campbell, do not want heavy, slow-moving sluggers. He had offered to supply the Army with a 62-ton tank. But the mobility-minded High Command declined them, still did not want them in Europe. U.S. generals, he said, prefer lighter, nimbler armor...
...Kingdom," but many of the Barry Fitzgerald touches are presented here by Edmund Gwynn. The novel, like all of Cronin's, has a consistent theme of human aspiration and courage with big does of excitement thrown in. It is a tear-jerker, but it is not unrelieved by lighter moments...
...know that it's been a harrowing week. If you don't believe it just listen to the walling which the Pearsons will do in their next column. But there have been lighter sides to life too, since the Board and its long black shadows haven't darkened everyone's path all the week...