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Word: lightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel that TIME failed to articulate a fine sociological distinction between Jew and militant black that sheds light on the recent confrontation. The Jew may question the propriety of a law but recognizes its validity. Any discriminatory statute will find the Jew in the forefront of those attempting to change it. He will fight for the rights of all men, for in the refinement of democracy his rights will be better preserved. Yet, there is a firm recognition that should law itself be disrupted, his personal freedoms would be lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...platforms weighed hundreds of pounds and were both expensive and difficult to install. So engineers at the Dynasciences Corp. in Blue Bell, Pa., decided to take a radically new approach. Instead of steadying the viewing instrument, they decided, it might be more practical to stabilize the image by bending light beams from the target so that they would always hit the camera film or the retina of the viewer's eye at the same point. Using this concept, the Pennsylvania company developed a portable system that weighs only a few pounds. Mounted like a collar around the lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Optics: Steadying Images by Bending Light | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson quickly rebounded in the third period as the strength of their three good lines wore down the Brown team. Bob Havern lit the light at 5:40 with Dave Cavanagh and Dennis Sullivan getting the assists. Sullivan scored his second goal four minutes later to put Harvard ahead. The clinching goal was off the stick of Nick Sullivan with Howie Sullivan and Red Jahacke getting the assists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Extend Ice Streak To 12 | 2/6/1969 | See Source »

...dogs are many and friendly, and they are all over Antioch--in the classrooms, the dorms, at meetings, with the President and at the mid-night films. But their light-hearted presence sometimes seems like no more than a camouflage and foil for the tension on the campus where they make their home...

Author: By Diana M. Henry, | Title: Probing Antioch College's Novel Psyche | 2/5/1969 | See Source »

David Karapetian '69, cadet commander of Army ROTC, defended the presence of ROTC at Harvard as "consistent with the ideals of a liberal arts institution in light of its obligations to the realistic needs of the larger society...

Author: By Alan S. Geismer jr., | Title: Spokesmen Debate ROTC 'Views For 700 at Sanders Convocation | 2/4/1969 | See Source »

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