Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Amateur Astronomer Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
Conditions in Claverly Hall were first brought to light when a group of Claverly residents protested to Patrick D. Dailey '50, of the Student Council, who talked with Dean Bender yesterday...
...wife. One of the boys helped him hitch up the horses. When the doctor set off in the sleigh, two boys went along, whipping the horses through the big drifts. It was an emergency surgery case. Operating on his patient on a farmhouse kitchen table, by the light of kerosene lamps, Dr. Heise was glad to have his rugged sons on hand as assistants. Driving home afterward, they talked over the operation...
Mighty Midgets. Boeing Aircraft Co. has developed two midget-sized gas turbine engines light enough to be carried (see cut). One model weighs only 85 lbs. Another, weighing 140 lbs., is rated at 200 h.p. (compared with 300 lbs. for a reciprocating engine of similar power). The larger engine may be adapted for use in boats, electrical generating, etc., as well as flying...
Possibly Hollywood, which is capable of blushing, has heard about the pot and the kettle; in any case, unsure pacing and thin delivery cause a lot of the wickedest haymakers against radio and money-love to land rather light. For all Actor Greenstreet's enthusiasm, Soap Sponsor Evans is so fantastically brutal that most people may think him a freak, rather than a personification of one kind of big-business tyranny. And Adolphe Menjou, expert as he is as the head of the agency, appears more interested in getting laughs than in illustrating what...