Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week on the Million Dollar Pier at Atlantic City, N. J., before 10,000 utility-men, and with more formality, Preston S. Arkwright (now president of the Georgia Power Co.) was installed as president of the National Electric Light Association...
...Significance. Because Author Asquith's first novel contains more conversation than narrative, ecstatic critics are likening her to Jane Austen. But the light touch and the subtleties of the 19th century novelist are not Margot's-hers is rather a brilliant vivacity that springs from her myriad interests. Able horsewoman, her interest reflects itself in frequent contemplation of the technicalities of horseflesh. Scintillating conversationalist, her characters reflect the widely varied circle of her acquaintance. A liberal in politics, she tilts sharply at conservatism. And the result is a mass of entertaining material, done into novel-form to allow...
Taking as his text the twenty second and twenty third verses of the sixth chapter of Matthew. "The light of the body is the eye if therefore thine eye be single, the whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be 'evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!", President Lowell delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon to the Seniors and visitors who througed Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon...
...moral was involved in this case, but it may illustrate what I mean. The compass is to the mariner what conscience is to a man. A deviation involves a wrong course. That is the significance in our text of the eye being single and whole body full of light...
...that the defaulter sometimes continues to hold a respected position, or even to be an active church member. Such a contradiction is certainly not always, and from the outset, conscious hypocrisy. There has been a gradual numbring of moral sensibility, a growing blindness of the soul, and when the light of such a man is darkness, how great is that darkness...