Word: lightfoote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Alaska, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Negro evangelist, chartered a plane, flew out over the Bering Sea, heaved out a watertight canister containing a Russian-language Bible. Elder Michaux's hope: that the Bible would wash up on Russian territory, and that "God would send the proper person to find it and get it to the people of Russia...
...achieved success and power far beyond Adams' gloomy dreams,* Democracy, first published anonymously in 1879, is still just about the best satire ever written about the Government of the U.S. "The Prairie Giant." The business of the book is, outwardly, to describe the adventures of a certain Mrs. Lightfoot Lee, wealthy, intelligent Philadelphia widow who becomes so weary of human society that she goes to live in Washington, D.C. There, she thinks, she can get "to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy." She thinks also that she can get "power." Her bid for both involves...
...common use to denote one-tenth of a shake, but a more picturesque name was suggested by Dr. J. W. Keuffel (then a student at CalTech). Since this is very nearly the time taken by light to travel twelve inches, he proposed that it be called the "lightfoot" by analogy with the common astronomical unit, the "light-year"-which is, of course, a measure of distance and not of time...