Word: lightly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maritain has written more than two dozen books, hardly any of them light reading. Together they form almost an encyclopedia of Roman Catholic thought. Nothing irritates Maritain more than to be accused of reaction or medievalism; he insists that his "antimodern" position is actually "ultra-modern...
...physicians would rather use a fluoroscope than X-ray photographs; it's the difference between watching a movie and a set of stills. A fluoroscope lets them watch the internal organs in action. But there are two difficulties: a doctor's eyes function poorly in the dim light needed to make the fluoroscopic image visible; the X-ray intensities now used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient. Last week Westinghouse Physicist John Wo Coltman, 32, who has been inventing gadgets since he was a boy, thought he had the answer: an X-ray intensifier...
...inside view of 24 years of Harvard history and the man who made it comes to light today when the University Press brings out a biography of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 by Henry A. Yeomans '00, professor of Government, emeritus...
...guest-home has six large bedrooms with adjoining baths, as well as a reception room and a small light-housekeeping suite for the guest-house hostess. No meals will be served in the House itself, but its distinguished occupants will have the use of the adjacent Faculty Club...
...overly literary simile ends right there, however. You don't have to look for a Pied Piper to explain this exodus. All you have to do is leaf through the calendar, and let your eyes light on May 29. What does it suggest...