Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time wore on, the first hasty $25 million estimate of damage dropped to $15 million. And the casualty list seemed miraculously light...
...tuberculosis, various severe infections, such as kidney diseases. Where tests were positive, other diseases could be readily ruled out, and a search for the location of cancer could continue by more complicated methods. Study of the reasons why the blood protein of cancer victims is abnormal may eventually throw light on the causes of cancer. To Dr. Huggins, this phase of the work seemed more scientifically important than the test...
...This theory is still in its infancy. His other theory, which Abbot considers just about full-grown: temperature variations (from the average, on given dates) are related to another specific solar cycle. Almost once every week (every 6.6456 days, to be exact), Abbot believes, the amount of heat and light radiated by the sun builds up to a maximum; then it declines to a minimum...
Genial, bumbling Justin Miller, NAB's $75,000-a-year president, told the convention that he saw a faint light of hope. "I'm not so pessimistic as Wayne Coy or 'Deac' Aylesworth," he assured the delegates. "As long as radio profits are necessary to finance television, radio is not in immediate danger of giving...
...Berkleys of Broadway (M−G−M) is a light-hearted Technicolored reunion for Hollywood's best-known dance team: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The last time Fred and Ginger whirled across the screen together (The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1939), they were impersonating the famed ballroom dance team of the pre-World War I era. In The Bar-kleys, despite a thin veneer of fiction which makes them husband & wife, they are impersonating the world-famous cinema dance team of the '30s: Astaire & Rogers...