Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malachy Conlon, Catholic Secretary of the Irish Anti-Partition League, contributed his bit toward the sweetness & light that marked the occasion. Said Mr. Conlon: "No doubt the Orangemen put on a grand show. I'd like to see it myself, except that someone would probably recognize me and try to knock my block...
When & if the atom really splits to pieces, it will be more like an exploding electric light bulb-smashed to smithereens. Last week some determined U.S. atom smashers, the cyclotron group at the University of California, coolly reported that the smithereenizing of the atom is now well on its way. They announced that they had smashed some atoms into 22 to 30 pieces...
Sample smash: an arsenic atom (atomic weight: 75) had 21 particles knocked off by a single blow, and was reduced to radioactive cobalt (atomic weight: 54). When the new cyclotron bombarded an oxygen atom (atomic weight: 16) with neutrons, the light atom split into five pieces (see cut; the arrows point to the five-way split of the oxygen atom, the streaks indicate the path of atomic chips...
Nonetheless, as a reward for Wright's "desire to help medical science," Judge McDonald let him off with a light sentence-two to twelve years in the penitentiary (instead of the 40 years to life Wright might have expected to get as a habitual offender...
...clear up the blur, the owner of a pay-as-you-see television set would only have to call "Phone Vision" on his telephone, tell the operator what show he wanted to see; the price of admission would be added to his phone or electric light bill. A small, inexpensive (about $5) telephone attachment* would transmit the missing key frequencies to his set. Another show could not be tuned in without another paid admission. The system, McDonald predicts, will be operating within a year-barring, of course, legal objections by the Federal Communications Commission, which has not yet considered...