Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Avak, dark-bearded faith healer who arrived noisily in California from Iran last May, arrived in Florida from California and quickly endeared himself to the Chamber of Commerce. California's wild parties and light-mindedness, announced Avak, were not conducive to faith healing -and neither was the climate...
...prediction for today: Light snow flurries...
...preliminaries were done with. Last week the 80th Congress humped to its work. Floor dockets were light, but committees ground away furiously. Besides ERP, two matters got special attention...
...more than an hour late, slid to an unscheduled stop. Bitter cold (-35°) had forced down steam in the engine's boilers; it would take time to get it up again. Because No. 21 was following on the same track, a brakeman set out to light warning flares and set torpedoes. But No. 21, pounding through the early morning fog, was dreadfully close behind. Before the brakeman could light a flare, it had plowed into...
...contributions of Carl Van Doren's book is that it provides readers with all the information they need to answer the old questions about the Constitution's rigidity, its difficulty of amendment, and its usefulness in a time of crisis. It also throws a good deal of light on discussions as to whether the American Constitution is as effective an instrument of government as the unwritten constitution by which the British Empire is governed (readers will probably decide it is better...