Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02 and H.A.A. Business Manager Carroll F. Getchell have already approved the use of the Soldiers Field lot. The project now awaits only for a final green light from the Corporation...
...There's a difference," he explains, "in the way a $12 coat wrinkles from the way a $75 coat wrinkles. And that has to be right. It's just as important, esthetically, as the difference in the light of the Ile de France and the Brittany coast. Maybe it's more important. If I look at an ordinary overcoat as if I never saw it before, then it becomes as fit a subject for painting as one of Titian's purple cloaks...
...Planck's particular specialty, thermodynamics (the behavior of heat), there was a "revolutionary situation." Planck (and many others) had been studying the effect of a body's temperature upon the wavelengths of the light and heat which it radiates. They suspected that a fundamental relationship was lurking somewhere, but could not find...
...others: the charge of the electron (1.591 x 10 -20 e.m.u.), and the speed of light in a vacuum (186.285 miles per second...
That was the first news American Overseas got that its 173 captains and copilots had walked out, grounding all the 18 planes on its international routes. As the day wore on, American found space on rival lines for 56 passengers on the relatively light eastbound run. But 130 others waited vainly at European airports, unable to find space on the crowded westbound flights of other lines. (By week's end A.O.A.'s European backlog was close...