Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news went around the world with the speed of light: the owlish little man in spectacles-not the fellow with the mustache-had won the U.S. election after all. And the experts, including especially all the American experts with their wonderful, scientific slide-rule assurance, had been grievously, laughably wrong. The world, cheering for a miracle of any kind, loosed a 'delighted, friendly roar...
...Light Began." In 1939, Knox was assigned by his archbishop to translate the Bible. He retired to a friend's house in the country and set to work on a lonely, eight-hour-day, six-day-a-week schedule. In three years he had completed the New Testament and went right to work on the Old-turning out an average 24 verses a day, though sometimes he struggled all morning to get a verse just the way he wanted...
...Christians of 2048 will learn about the Creation in these words: God, at the beginning of time, created heaven and earth. Earth was still an empty waste, and darkness hung over the deep; but already, over its waters, brooded the Spirit of God. Then God said, Let there be light; and the light began...
...pair of Brooklyn Prep stars with the Bears, Joe Paterno, quarterback, and Frank Mahoney, end, reported for today's light drill and Fred Kozak of Fall River is near peak form as a result of the work he was able to do against Western Reserve...
Machines' electronic calculating punch now does multiplication, cross-addition, cross-subtraction and division electronically for the first time in business-machine history. The show also had many other new gadgets. Among them: ¶Dictaphone has a light (20-lb.), portable, plug-in model ($350) which records 15 minutes of dictation on envelope-sized plastic belts, so light that five can be mailed in a 3? envelope. ¶SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls...