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Word: lightering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing his chain of papers needed, said shrewd little Roy Howard, was a change of pace. The Scripps-Howard chain had a full stable of heavy and medium-heavy thinkers. What was needed was lighter, belt-level reading matter-about meat, sex, the movies. Result: by last week 30-year-old Robert C. Ruark, a balding, Southern-accented graduate of the sports pages, was the country's fastest-climbing columnist. His readily readable pieces, studded with flip and flossy phrases, were running in 19 Scripps-Howard papers and 20 others. He was making $500 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Belt-Level Stuff | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Brawn with a liberal dash of experience is the recipe that's going to start Kirkland House off to a victory in the opener of the House gridiron circuit with a lighter Dunster House eleven this afternoon. At least that's the way Captain George Blanchard of the Deacon aggregation, who bolsters up the line at guard, views the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Holds Edge In House Grid Opener | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

Hazel Forbes, who rose from Ziegfeld glorification on Broadway to toothpowder riches (Dr. Lyon's, inherited from her late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Last week Dewavrin, stripped of rank and honors, and some 70 pounds lighter after four months in jail on unspecified charges, was recuperating in a clinic near Paris (see cut). His case had not been brought before any court, nor was it likely to be. "L'Affaire Passy" had begun to smell like "L'Affaire Dreyfus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: L'Affaire Passy | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...chromosome material), it must be slightly heavier. The problem, therefore, is to separate "biological isotopes." Harvey, citing a centrifuge method which has separated the light and heavy parts of sea urchins' eggs, thinks it can be done. His proposal: use a special centrifuge to whirl the sperm; the lighter male-producing sperm will rise to the top, can be skimmed off and planted by artificial insemination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sex by Centrifuge | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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