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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Married. Freddie Mills, 29, British boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world since he defeated New Jersey's Gus Lesnevich last July; and Chrissie Broadribb, 36, his manager's daughter; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...movie? He was played by Actor H. B. Warner in Cecil B. DeMille's famed King of Kings, made in 1927 and still shown some 1,200 times a year in the U.S. alone. Since then, Hollywood has tended to show Christ only as a shadow, a light, a symbol, a back or a vague outline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Too Concrete? | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Flame. In Washington, Ralph Miller asked a stranger for a light, claimed the lighter he had lost three years ago in the South Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Booterss leave on the 10:30 sleeper tonight with the football team, and will have light practice at Ithaca tomorrow afternoon with the game being scheduled for 12 noon Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Munro Works On Passing in Long Soccer Workouts | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

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