Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meantime splashes from the Boise's lighter guns were observed on either side of a smaller ship. Shortly this ship could no longer be seen, although the shell splashes were still visible. . . . One minute later the Boise had her main batteries trained on a destroyer. This ship exploded and disappeared after one minute of the Boise's murderous fire...
Author of the work is Alexander Aflnogenov, chiefly known for his heavier plays, including "Fear," which was presented in this country a few years ago. "Mashenka," a lighter piece, was written a year and a half ago, just before his death in a Moscow air raid...
...making of indium: Indium is a once-rare metal that even in very small quantities makes soft metals hard, dull ones bright, and does many an odd job in stretching the supply of critical materials. It is silver white, malleable, ductile, soft, more than twice as heavy as iron, lighter than lead...
...Lighter in weight, darker in color, trimmer, tougher, younger-looking, Clark Gable graduated as a second lieutenant from the Army Air Forces officer candidate school at Miami, got a secret assignment. Off to the Army at California...
After ten months of war some of the Chief's precious morning time has still to be allotted to "must" callers: Senators, Congressmen, a few civilian executives, occasional industrialists who should or must be served. At 12:40, on the lighter days, General Marshall motors to his pleasant, rambling home at Fort Myer (across the Potomac in Virginia) for lunch, then rides back to the Munitions Building at about 2 p.m. One day of the week he lunches with the other members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, then spends the afternoon with Admiral King and other top sea dogs...