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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongest weapons the "crusaders" can muster. Bill Cunningham's Sunday denunciation of an M.I.T. professor is a good example: . . ."It appears he did do a little speaking around in parlors and such to quiet, if not secret, gatherings got up by dimly defined females, identified, like queens and red light denizens, by only first names. Officially, this man's profession is teaching young Americans." Apparently if you can't accuse a man of anything definite, he is considered guilty on the spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Big Red Scare: II | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

Despair Among the Tunghsi. Daylight does nothing to light up the funereal mood of the city. The morning rush hour crowds on Chungshan Road are too dispirited even to shove or grouse as they wait for buses or pedicabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: City of Defeat | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Coach Samborski is still experimenting in his lineups--he will do so for the next two or three games--and this afternoon's batting order will bear only a light resemblance to the one that went to a ten-inning 2 to 2 tie with MIT last Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Nine Throws Revamped Team Against Dummer | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...example, has just completed installing the new 15,000 volt transformers to carry the added load of the Physics Lab's cyclotron. But the most spectacular of the department's functions is the heating of Harvard buildings. Steam for over 180 buildings is brought from the Cambridge Electric Light Co. through two 19-inch pipes while a third one carries returning water. These pipes run through four miles of underground tunnels...

Author: By Peter K. Solmssen, | Title: In the Sky . . . On the Land . . . . . . and in Your Bed | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...throws lefthanded; Ralph Hymans and Herbie Neal, right. None of the trio, fresh, could have done better than Godin, tired. If one of them turns out to be a pitcher who can go six innings or more, the whole baseball prospect could quickly become bathed in a soft, rosy light...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

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