Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intentions toward the peace of the world, they appoint a commission to study the spiritual development of the Russian people as a people and as represented by their great and spiritual literature. Proceeding on the theory that the way to shut out the darkness is to turn on the light, I believe that such an undertaking would do much to fan to flame in the hearts of the true Russian people the Christian spark which once ignited can never be permanently...
...runway saw it coming and dived for his automobile's floorboards. One of the DC-4's massive, spinning wheels banged across the top of his car, bent it down a full six inches, left him unhurt. The plane lurched on, shearing off light poles, slammed back to earth, slid with a crash of metal, and stopped beside a stagnant pond. Then it burst into flames...
...Northwestern, Professor Pound had a light, six hour teaching schedule with ample opportunity for research and writing. Soon the University of Chicago offered him a staff position with a high stipend. Dean Wigmore volunteered to meet the figure, but Pound took the position that it would be "intolerable" for him to receive a higher salary than...
...griddle, to keep his plant cooking after the wholesale cancellation of war orders (TIME, April 15, 1946). But Navion production had lagged because of delays in engine deliveries. When the planes finally came out, North American had no adequate sales force to sell them in the face of the light-plane slump. And the price of $7,750 was so far below cost-at the low production rate-that it became a wry joke. Once, when a prospect told Dutch that he would buy a Navion if he could "get it at cost," Dutch snapped back: "Wonderful. Make out your...
...reported on their success or failure as satanic agents since the last meeting and had finished feasting (usually on a sheep stolen from a farmer), the Master took up his reed pipe and led them in a riotous dance, which ended in a sexual orgy lasting "until the first light of dawn broke up the meeting...