Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough road. Good instruction. Interesting material, fine facilities, and the anticipation of a thorough familiarity with the engineering sciences do not make the program any lighter or give the concentrator a chance to sample other fields...
Flying up and down the Charles these spring days are four distinct varieties of oarsmen: Varsity, Junior Varsity, Freshmen, and 150's. Those in the last group, however, into a special classification. Their standard racing shell is two inches narrower and a shade lighter than the others, and their usual racing distance is shorter by seven sixteenths of a mile. Weight restrictions limit their boat average to an even one fifty and their individual poundage to a hundred and fifty five...
Parietal rules took a severe beating at the hands of the severely restrained Freshmen, as many polls brought answers yearning for life under a lighter disciplinary hand. Expectations ranging from a moderate "more frequent guest permission for meals" to a startling "midnight for women guests" found their way onto the blanks...
Again in Austryn Wainhouse's "The Cigarette Lighter," the addition of editorial perspective to the author's marked literary and dramatic talents could have saved the story from its present confusion. It is the longest work in "Radditudes," and most ambitious; its study of a student suffering from some sort of war neurosis leaves the reader impressed and bewildered. If there had been no attempt at symbolism, if Wainhouse had limited himself to a simple character sketch, the story would have been clear and good. Once he decided to have the cigarette lighter mean something, he should have made...
...Club, a massive grey building which underwent refurbishing operations up to zero hour; workers put in carpets, telephones, new toilet seats. Soviet Painter Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov inspected the decorations, found that French Foreign Minister Bidault's room contained only some dull landscapes. Forthwith, Gerasimov ordered them replaced by "lighter subjects," including a nude. In pre-revolutionary days, the Aero Club had been one of Russia's gaudiest restaurants, the Yar; pre-revolutionary Russians still remember the ditty...