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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkans. UNSCOB (United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans) is ready to submit a report giving solid evidence that Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia had aided the Markos guerrillas against the Athens government. It may throw some interesting light on whether aid from Yugoslavia has dwindled or stopped since Tito's country got kicked out of the Cominform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Les Onusiens | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...subject sits with his eyes closed and thinks, for instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Brain at Work | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Only at the ends does Coach Little have real cause for the worries he professes, but here Old Man Graduation really took his toll when he removed Bill Swiacki and Bruce Genrke from the Light Blue-roster. Adam Rakowski is the only experienced end returning, but Lion rooters are waiting patiently for Little to wave the same magic wand he used in beating Army last year and come up with someone else to pull down Rossides' heaves...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Lou Little Weeps, But Lions Will Still Field a Strong Team Oct. 2 | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

Ninety-eight percent of you will wear dark gray flannel trousers between ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock at night. That is, you will unless a nationally famous fashion authority called General Hershey decides you ought to wear light khaki trousers and a nationally famous health expert called General Hershey feels you ought to wear them starting at six in the morning instead of ten. If that happens, none of my information applies. It's all based on having ninety-eight percent in gray flannels...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...autumn would End! If the sweet season, The late light in the tall trees would End! If the fragrance, the odor of Fallen apples, dust on the road, Water somewhere near, the scent of Water touching me; if this would end I could endure the absence in the night, The hands beyond the reach of bands, the name Called out and never answered with my name: The image seen but never seen with sight. I could endure this all If autumn ended and the cold light came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If Autumn Ended . . . | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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