Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They did not enjoy it long. The Narrows bridge heaved like a hammock. Sometimes a car approaching would seem to drop clear out of sight with an undulation of the roadway. Yet the bridge was strong. Heavy winds failed to shake it; but when lighter, intermittent breezes swept in from the open Sound, it was agitated by a peculiar weaving, sinuous motion that its builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind...
Typical cases last week: Ralph Ellmore of Essex got six months for stealing a washing wringer from a bombed house; two soldiers, William Hart, 19, and James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military...
...automobiles look like polished steel. Test panels are 70% cellulose fibre, 30% resin binder, pressed into cloth. Alone the cloth has little strength. But several sheets heat-molded in a 1,000-ton press produce a material superior to steel in everything but tensile strength. It is 50% lighter, 50% cheaper, ten times stronger. Bent like a jackknife in a huge press, plastic panels snap back into shape when the pressure is released. Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels. Their color is not paint but inbred in the plastic. Fenders...
...British admitted it was the most thoroughgoing treatment they had yet received. Their bag of enemy planes shot down dwindled to discouraging new lows, because the fighter-bombers, once unloaded, were far faster meat than the big-bomber fleets of September. Yet the new damage, while bitter, was actually lighter in sum than September's and in the face of "total" air war, the Government got under way a new program of clearance and repair work on the wreckage caused in 37 dreadful days...
...appointment is quite ideal from my point of view," the philosopher declared last night. "The salary is the same as that offered by the College of the City of New York, and the duties much lighter." His lectures will deal with philosophy in relation to social history and culture from the time of the ancient Greeks...