Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rust-colored road from Lake Superior to small Brule, the inland riverbank settlement, developed treacherous potholes despite the thousands of dollars Wisconsin had just spent to make it a safe road for a President to travel. An Army truck transporting mail-of-state foundered and tipped over. A light passenger car transporting a heavy, round-shouldered figure out of the dismal wilderness, slithered into a rut, stuck, had to be dragged out by horses...
...remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...
...among its baritones Robert Ringling, nephew of the Circus poo-bah (TIME, Nov. 28). More ambitious than most, the Cincinnati vocalists intend this year to specialize in Wagner, for he is an idol with local auditors. Later, for the last three weeks of their season, they will concentrate on light opera, especially the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, a source of fatigue to the listening monkeys...
...office in the Old Arcade Bldg., Cleveland, reporters listened to the low, kindly voice of a long-beloved citizen-Charles Francis Brush, 79, six feet tall, big of frame, bushy of eyebrows, world-famed physicist, inventor of the arc light. He answered questions concerning the $500,000 foundation he had just endowed...
...farm he had tinkered with wires and electrical apparatus. At 27, he had designed the first open coil dynamo, following this with an arc lamp, the "ring clutch," in which the carbon is clutched by a ring attached to an armature which automatically keeps the light steady. This not only solved a long standing difficulty but brought the price to street level. Three years later (1879) the Public Square in Cleveland glowed under the first public arc lights...