Word: lightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fastened by his breadth of black-gowned shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior member of the Court...
...Against the thesis of the British Admiralty that a nation's requirements for defense are absolute (specifically in the instance of light cruisers), Herbert Hoover maintains, as did Calvin Coolidge. that they are relative. Thus the British have insisted that they need a certain number of light cruisers, irrespective of how many or how few are possessed by other nations; but it remains the U. S. contention that more or less of these ships are required by a given country, in proportion as the number of prospective enemy ships is great or small...
...that War was declared, the German light cruiser Emden lay in the Yellow Sea, off Tsingtao, China. Capt. Karl von Muller delivered to his crew an oration, elegant yet fiery. The band played "Die Wacht am Rhein" and the Emden cleared decks to commence her single-handed war on enemy shipping...
...Light Metals (Elektronmetal...
...from a five-day, but from a seven-night job came one early experience from which Mr. Ley learned a lesson which later was to stay well by him. He was earning $1 weekly as lamplighter for Worcester, Mass., gas lamps. Twice, on cold January nights, he skipped one light on his beat For the first omission he was rebuked; for the second, discharged. Said Mr. Ley, many years after: "The greatest of all virtues is thoroughness. Nothing is ever really done until it is done right. This lesson I learned early in life...