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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Oct. 23, p. 14, ". . . [John Nance Garner's] Neon-blue eyes. . . ." If you will check the spectrum of Neon you will find it emits mostly orange and red wavelengths of light. Mercury or argon are the usual sources of blue light used in signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Anent Sir Philip Gibbs and "Winkles on Pins" (TiME, Nov. 6, p. 28), does not British tank officer's "dark saying" burst into klieg-light clarity when quoted as ". . . he was the winkle in [not on] the pin if war should ever begin in earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...huge beam of "black light" to black out the moon, thus deny moonlight to nocturnal air raiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ideas for War | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...cleats clattered out into the light with the rest...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Vagabond | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...program will include Handel's "Welcome as the Cheerful Light from Jeptha" and "Hallelejah, Amen"; "Good News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRAM FOR RADCLIFFE CONCERT IS ANNOUNCED | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

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