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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...weighed too heavily upon him. The legal battle stretched interminably ahead. There was even a chance that he might achieve, finally, a kind of martyrdom. In a perilous sort of way, the Government's attack had given his Communist Party a new prestige at the moment when its light was the dimmest it had been in over two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Seven New England college singing groups will get together at 8 30 p.m. tonight in Jordan Hall to give a concert entitled, "Octets, Etcetera." They will sing Fred Waring arrangements, light popular music, and such old favorites as "Mavorneon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven College Octets Give Concert Tonight | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...whole year of competition for places in the first varsity 150 shell came to an end this week when light-weight coach Bert Haines announced his boatings for the first race of the season tomorrow against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stiff Competition Produces 75% Sophomore 150 Crew | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

Yale students have also complained that the dining hall employees are rude to them. Miss Bowers, in replying to this charge, asserted that the rudeness is not all on one side and that Yale men have been known to swear at the help. All is not sweetness and light, it seems, at the colleges in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Price Drop Will Bring Back Yale's Table Help | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

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