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Word: lighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christie light tank, powered with a Liberty motor, plunged and reared across a churned-up field at 40 m. p. h. With the track-laying belt removed, this tank had gone 69 m. p. h., might go 90 m. p. h. on a good road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Aberdeen Show | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...southern hemisphere's spring sun was warming Antarctica to almost zero temperature last week. Bands of spectral light bunted the grey ice plateaux with sham festivity. The fringe of sea ice along the continent's frigid hem was softening. Soon four parties of explorers could be poking about the continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Antarctic Rush | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Accommodating 255 scribes and the attendant telegraphers, charters, spotters, announcers, photographers, and radio broadcasters, the new press box presents an example of sales psychology much to the benefit of the University. Those who have scribbled over wet and trickling sheets by light a borrowed match or flickering kerosone torch while the chill gloom of a rare Scotch mist engulfed the receding shadows of the stands have much to be thankful for in the recently completed press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TOP OF THE STADIUM | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...practice session included another skeleton drill on the defense against Army plays as interpreted by the Seconds under the direction of Coach Knox. The Crimson warriors were carefully instructed in the method of attack which they are expected to face. Individual instruction and a short signal drill concluded the light workout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEST POINT CLASH IS ACID TEST FOR CRIMSON ELEVEN | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...feeling that he may romp for a touchdown on the next play. Hewitt is one of the best looking backs Columbia has sent on the field since the halcyon days of Morley and Weekes. He, too, is a marvelous running back and the duel between the Green and Light Blue stars should produce plenty of fireworks for spectators at this contest. BY TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

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