Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt of it-there really was a considerable influx of U.S. lawmakers to Spain last week, and more loomed on the horizon. Speaking through its Madrid embassy, the U.S. State Department set the situation in its proper light: the visitors were just "distinguished Americans on a private tour...
...speed of light is science's most revered measuring stick. Among countless other uses, the figure-299,776 kilometers per second-has been built into radars, which measure distances by the time it takes radio waves (traveling at the same speed as light) to cover them...
Dunster House underwent a 15-minute unexplained blackout when light power failed, an impromptu hand paraded in Lowell House courtyard, and outside shrinking was noticeable on Mt. Auburn Street...
Every year, thousands of light-skinned and straight-haired negroes cross the line. Not the Mason Dixon line but another border of far greater significance--the line which divides white from colored in American society...
...Lost Boundaries," currently playing at the University Theater is the story of such a negro. After graduating from medical school, Dr. Carter (Mel Ferrer) reluctantly decides to "pass" when he finds that no negro hospital will accept him because he is too light and no white institution will take him because he frankly admits he is a negro...