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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Porch Light. Indiana's Freshman Democratic Congressman Randall S. Harmon, 55, who has been collecting $100 a month from the Government for renting out his own front porch to himself for an office in Muncie, announced that the Post Office Department owed him money, too. Declared Harmon, a political rolling stone and onetime tool worker who tumbled into office with last fall's Democratic landslide: The Muncie post office used his versatile porch for a drop-off station for sacks of mail for nine years. The tab: $1,800. Replied Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield: "No legal basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Capital Notes | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

NORTHROP AIRCRAFT will develop light, cheaper, all-weather fighter (N-156F) for allies under Air Force contract. Plane is simpler to maintain, easier to fly than standard U.S. fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...witness, who had been waiting for a red light, told police he pursued Barber several blocks before forcing him to the curb at the intersection of Charles and Boylston Streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Apprehended On Hit-Run Charge | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

...school, where everybody who has a brother at Harvard also has his record, you hear about how he got kicked out for criticizing the Administration. Some people will tell you he's a Communist, others think he was a professor of some prominence who was too much of a light-hearted roue to stay within the academic confines of Cambridge...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

Under the new plan, patrons would choose and pay only for what they select from a limited menu. At lunch there would be an express line for those wanting light orders. Prices would be equal to or lower than those in nearby eating places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harkness to Try Cafeteria Style In Face of High Operating Costs | 3/19/1959 | See Source »

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