Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome crier is named Thomas E. Waggaman. His admonishment, uttered after the Justices are seated, has been preceded by the flash of a light over the courtroom's side door. He has banged his gavel for all present to rise as the Justices march in. Now all may sit, at Crier Waggaman's next gavel-bang, and Justice takes its course...
...trenches the nighttime is the worst. Daytime in a front line trench is often strangely quiet, soldiers can sleep, scratch, write letters, but with evening stand-to, and the first blue Very light that curves up into the sky comes a cold tightening of the nerves, a ceaseless dread...
...college, many and distinct are the categories among the undergraduates, ranging from the broad-backed footballers to the light-stepping, open-collared esthetes. But which is "the fruitiest group...
...Electric Investors, Inc. is a strict holding company with 87% of its investments in utilities, Electric Bond and Share Co. has much wider interests. Besides holding stocks of other companies, Bond and Share renders financial and operative assistance of every type and has supervisory agreements with American Power and Light Co., American and Foreign Power Co., Inc., Electric Power and Light Co., American Gas and Electric Co., National Power and Light Co. and all their subsidiaries. Although from Electric Investors, Inc., Bond and Share will receive additional stock in these companies the only one actually controlled will still...
...architect, John L. Kingston of Warren & Whetmore, started with the idea of a good sized building constructed, theoretically, high up in the air. Then he planned downward to the street level, spreading lower stories to get the "setback" effect which gives tall buildings the maximum of light...