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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, the smugglers' boats crept into the mangrove-fringed inlets of Florida's Keys, their running lights doused, their engines throttled down to a throaty chuckle. Among the trees a car waited, ready to whisk the refugees northward through Miami. The smugglers' boats are mostly goletas-small, dirty fishing smacks and schooners used in the coconut and banana trade. Often, the goleta will rendezvous with a faster U.S. boat for the run to the Florida coast. Masters of bigger boats prefer to land their cargoes further up the coast, as far north as Norfolk, to elude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...thrown from a horse, and ordered the animal shot. In a village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Only Free Man | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...into groups of 25 or 30, each known as a "family" and supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Village of Our Own | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Kindly Light, with love enfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayers for the Senate | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Rupp Sheds Light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Glad Welcome Awaits Freshmen On Exeter's Mat | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

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