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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine training flight. On a sunny morning this week, the sleek T.W.A. Constellation, Star of Athens, swung low over the Brandy wine light, skimmed north up Delaware Bay. The lighthouse-keeper heard a jarring explosion, then two more. An enormous pillar of smoke shot up from the pool of gasoline flames on the water. By the time fishing boats and the Coast Guard reached the scene, all that was left of the Constellation and its four-man crew were some floating wreckage, a few bits of burned flesh and charred clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Ill-Starred | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...sure what had happened. The light-keeper thought at first that the explosions had come before the crash. Then he was not so sure. T.W.A. officials guessed from the shape and position of the wreckage that the low-flying Connie had caught a wingtip in the water, said it had plunged into the bay and then exploded. Whatever the cause, it was the sixth misadventure (TIME, July 22 et seq.) on the jinx-ridden Connies' ill-starred record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Ill-Starred | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Clearly it is unfair to condemn the course hastily as of little or no value, for students uniformly testify that some of the light seeps through. But they are also quite uniform in their wistful comments on what might have been. Fortunately the problem of the confused social scientist grappling with a technical subject is not new. The Report on General Education clearly recognized it, and brought about the highly satisfactory reforms of the three Natural Science courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Effect of Demand | 5/16/1947 | See Source »

...appears to Coach Bolles that, with few exceptions, the Eastern crews are of about equal calibre. The equality, at any rate, exists near the top, to which this season's slim light between first and second place sholls act as a mute witness. Even Cornell's slightly more than one length victory last Saturday is close for a two mile distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...Wallace Woodworth '24, the group will appear before Widener promptly at 7 o'clock, and will proceed to give a program including both classical and light modern pieces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Gives Yard Encore at 7 Tonight | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

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