Word: lightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group left New York yesterday under the auspices of the department of Tropical Medicine of the Medical School on an expedition to Yucatan which may bring forth new light upon the Mayan civilization. The Carnegie Foundation of Washington has also appropriated funds for the expedition, and will bear a part of the expense...
...earth by means of the torsion balance. Masses of density different from the surrounding rock, tend to deflect the direction of gravity and the change, though almost infinitesimal, from the standpoint of ordinary human experience, is capable of measurement by observing the amount of rotation of a light beam appropriately weighted and suspended on a thin platinum wire. Ore bodies themselves are rarely large enough to cause detectable variations in gravity, but large features such as heavier rock in cores of folds, dome-shaped masses of salt, or bleached cavernous ground can often be recognized by the anomalies caused...
There is an act with two pianos on the stage, a very battered looking played by a young man with smooth hair and a very new one played by, it seems, an electric light socket. The organ complained the "St., Louis Blues" and one piano or the other would interrupt, as pianos will. The figures of Will Fyffe's salary were not announced...
There are other possible changes besides the kind of modification, which the wets went. Modification may proceed in either of two directions. It may proceed in the direction of softening the law, permitting 2. 75 percent beer, which would please no one, or light wines and beers which are, as a matter of fact, intoxicating, or of putting the government in the business of selling liquor. On the other hand, it make take the form of stiffening the law, imprisoning where it now fines, and applying the penalties to purchasers as well as to sellers. The wets of the seaboard...
...letters and notes was revealed to me only a few days ago, and while the new documents include no letters written by Washington himself as far as I know, the presence of a large number written by his sister, Betty Washington Lewis, makes it very possible that a new light will be thrown on Washington's business transactions and private life." The famous historian settled back in his chair and continued. "You know Washington was the wealthiest man in America in his day. He was a shrewd business man, an analytic bookkeeper, and the most consistent buyer of real estate...