Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sellouts in least theaters are slowing down ticket transactions at the PBH Ticket Arney according to Arnold L. Abrams '48, chairman of the committee, Compared to last year, business has been light, he said...
...unwanted Sargent junior admitted, "Many a girl would be thrilled to death to march with Harvard," but worried more over her light treatment at home. "First they wanted to drop me from a helicopter," she chirped...
...music of whimsical, young (35) Don Gillis was getting a hearing partly because of a whim of Toscanini's. For three years, Gillis had been NBC's Producer of Symphony Programs. On the side he has written 42 compositions, most of them earnest but light things. Some, out & out musical gags, bore such titles as Thoughts Provoked on Becoming a Prospective Papa. Toscanini, who sometimes likes to indulge his ability to make a 24-hour sensation out of a young musician, announced that he would play a piece...
...weaving; his head battered back & forth in the bubble cover. At the end of the measured mile, the electric timing eye clocked him at a record-breaking 385.6 m.p.h. He had to slow down to 250 before applying the brakes. Half an hour later, going northward with a light tail wind, he reached 403 m.p.h. After officials juggled the figures around for a few minutes, Cobb's record went on the books as 394.196 m.p.h. A reporter asked him whether he had found the high speed frightening. "It's not a matter of fear," said girt John Cobb...
Extra Energy. Radar waves are electromagnetic waves like light and X rays; but since their frequency is enormously smaller, they carry much less energy per "photon."* They therefore provide what scientists call an "elegant" method of dealing out very small quantities of energy. Using a formidable-looking gadget, Lamb & Retherford shot radar waves of the proper frequency through hydrogen atoms in one of Dirac's predicted states. As soon as the energy was added, the atoms turned into the other state. Since energy was required to make the change, the experiment showed that the two states did not have...