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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus was Britain prepared, with customary sweetness and light, for Hugh Dalton's birthing. But no Briton was wholly prepared for the shock of what he delivered (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pomp | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Matter of Prestige. Before dawn's light, the British Army moved its might into Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other large towns. Loudspeakers blared that all residents must stay in their houses for 24 hours. At Safad a nervous British lieutenant called on Mrs. Helen Friedman, Dov Gruner's sister from Lancaster, Pa., and broke the news to her. She had seen her brother the day before and she had been told then that she could see him again this day. She sobbed, "Why did they do it? Why did they fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Un-British | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1879 to ex. amine new developments in thought in the light of Roman Catholic doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Existentialist Saint | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...book, though physically small, is no light reading for summer afternoons. It is mostly a series of lectures (delivered at Yale) on teaching science to undergraduates who do not intend to become professional scientists. Dr. Conant's idea: illustrate the "scientific method" by citing historical cases in which science has solved tough problems. Science, he believes, cannot be a mere bulk of static knowledge, however large: "Almost by definition, science moves ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unrepentant Scientist | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...near to a still completely urban house. . . . Now they loosened their hold of K., who stood waiting dumbly, took oft their top hats and wiped the sweat from their brows with pocket handkerchiefs, meanwhile surveying the quarry. The moon shone down with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tragic Sense of Life | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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