Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staunch Republican, I wish to view with alarm this sweetness and light campaign of Dewey and Warren to unify the nation . . If, as we believe, Dewey wins the election, he will doubtless pose as the representative of a united nation, and those who criticize and those who attack his policies will be divisive forces, seeking to undermine the united efforts of the nation. Is this not authoritarianism wearing the garb of a monk and sweetly-saying Pax Vobiscum! . . . JAMES L. ROHRBAUGH Pastor First United Presbyterian Church Seattle, Wash...
...chaperon was mostly fun because it was magnificently frenzied: farce is among the few things with the right to advocate violence. The new version not only has music that is pretty poor, but, as a way of halting the high jinks, every tune might as well be Lead, Kindly Light...
...Green Light. Many weights & measures experts have had their eyes on a kind of green light from glowing mercury vapor. But natural mercury contains seven different isotopes, each giving off light of slightly different wave length. Pre-atomic science had no practical way of making one-isotope mercury...
...Standards, told the Paris conference that the job had been done-by transmutation. Pure gold (atomic weight 197), placed in an atomic pile and exposed to a storm of neutrons, is transmuted into a single mercury isotope with atomic weight 198. This one-isotope mercury gives off green light waves of extraordinary uniformity, as measuring sticks. They are much better than cadmium light; they are vastly better than the meter bar. Scientists using mercury light should be able to measure with an accuracy of one part in 100 million...
...British, Italian and Czech motormakers. Some of the tiny French cars looked lost among the Lincolns and Cadillacs, the British Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the Italian Alfa Romeos and Isotta-Fraschinis. But France had a luxury car of her own in Saoutchik's elegant, hand-built models: the light grey Delahaye, whose front fenders are bisected by mirrorlike wedges of gleaming chrome (price: about $17,000 in France); the white-upholstered Talbot-Lago. Saoutchik had orders for six cars from...