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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he followed this routine as methodically as a toolmaker setting up a lathe. He drove his 1941 Chevrolet sedan into the garage behind his neat white six-room house at 9:30 p.m. His wife turned on the back porch light; he walked into the kitchen, took off his coat, asked about their 5½ year-old daughter Linda, and sat down to some warmed-up beef stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Who Shot Walter? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Sweetness & Light. Western Europe had vastly strengthened its defenses against Communism, was even taking some practical first steps toward federation. This

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Positions for May Day | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Kremlin knew that his Italian defeat was hot irretrievable (see FOREIGN NEWS). Meanwhile there were other directions in which to move and strike. One possibility, of which some Americans became suddenly aware last week, was not to strike at all, but to summon up a spell of sweetness & light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Positions for May Day | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...center and cooler farther out. As the gas gradually condensed into solid particles, only substances of high boiling point (metals, mineral compounds) could condense in the hot inner regions. This accounts for the high density of the inner planets. Only in the cool outer parts of the system could light compounds like ammonia and methane get together in masses. The outer "protoplanets" grew faster; they were formed from more of the compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of the Planets | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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