Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still light like the sun was about to go down. We all spread out in the cornstalks. I could not see Joe all the time...
...super-dreadnought, a light cruiser and an aircraft carrier were despatched from Malta to Palestine. Other ships awaited orders...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked how he wrote "Up to Now," his serial auto-biography currently appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. Answered he: "I dictated it. . . . I'll tell you the secret of concentration. Just get in the front seat of a car. Light a good cigar and ride along looking at your feet. It's a great way to write articles...
...takes five seconds to light a cigaret, ten seconds for a cigar or pipe, on the average. A match burns one-half inch from its tip in ten seconds. If the stub were fireproof many a careless fire would be prevented...
...Percy C. Burton of the London Press Exchange gave a voice to the business of Peace. His suggestion: let the League of Nations spend $10,000,000 advertising itself. Shouted he: "I accuse the League of Nations of stupidity in hiding its light under a bushel and of profoundly misunderstanding the psychology of the masses of mankind in failing to take advantage of the magnificent opportunities which it has of popularizing its doings...