Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anthropologist will investigate the problem of adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership in the light of psychiatry and psychology: a psychologist is going to England and the Continent to study current work in the psychology of industry with particular reference to industrial morale...
Faint glimmers and green shades shone through windows on vacation nights where never light was seen before. The Vagabond cowers before the courageous example of those who slaved in such a way, while he, poor butterfly, was shuffling among the white lights and pink cheeks of Broadway...
Ryan formed in 1912, owns 95% of the electric light and power resources of Montana; it sells current to Mr. Ryan's greater company, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (he is chairman) and its subsidiaries, including a 120-mile electrified railroad; and it has a 99-year contract to furnish power to the electrified portion of the St. Paul Railroad. Montana Power is one of the largest and most powerful concerns in the Northwest. Isolated it is worth a good many millions...
...part of Mr. Mitchell's American Power & Light Co., it is worth several millions more. American Power & Light, one of the many potent public utilities which the omnipotent Electric Bond & Share Co. (Sidney Z. Mitchell is its chairman also) "supervises," recently acquired control of the Washington Water Power Co., which operates in Washington and Idaho, and for a longer time has owned the Pacific Power & Light Co., which operates in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. By adding to those companies Montana Power, American Power & Light has a well-knotted system tying the northwest communities snugly together...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...