Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Band has travelled in the West on past tours, and officials felt that a Southern tour should be arranged this year, particularly in the light of a successful visit to Washington, D.C., two years...
Flying Domes. The U.S. Marine Corps tried geodesic domes made of paperboard, found them so light that a helicopter could lift them and fly them to advance bases, so cheap that they could be left behind if necessary when the troops moved on. (The Marine Corps nicknamed the disposable domes "Kleenex houses," called them "the first major basic improvement in mobile military shelters in the past 2,600 years.") The U.S. needed a trade fair building in Afghanistan that could be flown in by DC-4; Fuller provided one that could be assembled in 48 hours. Covered with polyester Fiberglas...
After jumping over the wall in the narrowest of escapes, Tanguy and his odyssey of torment moved from darkness into light. He was enrolled in a Jesuit school for the children of Andalusian peasants...
Galbraith also contributes frequently to Atlantic, The Reporter, and Harper's--book reviews, light off-beat articles, discussions with roots in economics but branches in all corners of the contemporary scene. His fluent presentation combines charm and wit, and as he remarks in the foreword to one book, "I think the reader will find this a good-humored book. There is a place, no doubt, for the great polemic.... I would like to suppose I do not take myself so seriously." He laments the set-up in economics wherein "an economist who uses math and can't add is excluded...
...expect a gradual attrition among those who are now on the squad" said Coach Leavitt, "so that by spring there will be only enough men for six light and six heavy crews. Essentially, we now have the men who will supply our varsity material in coming years...