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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these days, cocky Walter Reuther might reach out his good little right hand for Phil Murray's job. At 40, he was now the most dazzling light in the C.I.O. firmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Redhead's Revenge | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Using a special quartz-rod light that he developed himself to make blood vessels transparent and three-dimensional under the microscope (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sludged Blood | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

After nightfall, Dr. Sasaki turns on the lights. The fish, which are very fond of light, think it's a party-or maybe a whole series of parties. They gather in swarms, cavorting around each light. When enough fish have gathered, Dr. Sasaki turns off the light nearest shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fish Story | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...ichthyophagous Japan, good fishing techniques are a matter of national importance. So the Japanese Government asked Dr. Tadayoshi Sasaki, of Tokyo's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, to work out a commercial way of using light to catch more fish. Last week Dr. Sasaki described a fiendishly clever system of luring fish to their doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fish Story | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...some distance offshore, Dr. Sasaki places a roughly V-shaped net. Inside the net, under water, he hangs a sealed-beam headlight bulb fed with current from a storage battery, the beam pointing out of the net. He hangs other bulbs, giving diffused light, in a long line toward the shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fish Story | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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