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Word: lighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Offense occupied the major portions of both yesterday's and Tuesday's practices. The squad did no scrimmaging Tuesday and what little contact work it performed was of a very light nature. Valpey sent his offenses against Army defenses simulated by the jayvees and then retired to Briggs Cage with the freshmen for a preliminary setting of Crimson defenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender Scrimmages; Team Works on Offensive Plays | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...bundles marked the culminating phase of a Great Improvement. They were the first of 1400 new desk chairs, tailor-made for Harvard and Radcliffe bottoms, to be installed in Sever classrooms during the next few months. For that venerable Victorian edifice is being entirely remodelled inside: fluorescent bulbs and light pastel color schemes are turning the place into something of a model classroom building. And in the spring, when Sever is finished, the ambitious gentlemen of the Building and Grounds Department hope to do the same for Harvard Hall. At last, it seems, the University is taking its seamier side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lux et Veritas | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...news which might explain the rise. K-F had been dickering for a $30 million . loan since May, and if "all requirements are met" the RFC might be disposed to grant it. Detroit buzzed with rumors that Kaiser would use such a loan to retool for his long-promised, light low-priced car to compete with Chevrolet Ford and Plymouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Transfusion for K-F? | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...could enable farmers to produce so cheaply, says Wallace, that they could accept much lower prices and still make a profit. Not all customers who have bought hybrids like them. Some say that the birds are too jittery. Furthermore, hybrid eggs might not be preferred in every market: a light cream color, the eggs are too dark for New Yorkers who like white eggs and too light for Bostonians, who like them deep brown. And hybrid pullets cost 60? each, about twice the price of ordinary birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Revolution in Chickens? | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...place from which light was almost excluded now by cobwebs across its two windows and into which, with the door ajar, the shafted sun lay in a lengthened arch of blazing sovereigns. Over a corn bin on which he had packed last autumn's ferns lay Paddy snoring ... a web strung from one lock of hair back onto the sill above . . . Caught in the reflection of spring sunlight this cobweb looked to be made of gold as did those others which by working long minutes spiders had drawn from spar to spar of the fern bedding on which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Treasure | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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