Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afraid that, in the minds of many readers, this attitude will place TIME in the ranks of Philistines and others of the Bruce Barton school who interpret the world's most cherished illusions in the light of their pragmatical souls...
...course not. . . . No, this miner you quote may not have been actuated by the highest principles, but in the light of the four gospels, I confess, he's not so far wrong...
...Amir & Queen of Afghanistan who, with almost their entire suite, appeared to be suffering from colds. They arrived from Caux, Swiss-Alpine resort, where they have been recuperating from previous official entertainment at Rome, Paris & Brussels (TIME, Jan. 23, Feb. 6). Last week as Amir Amanullah, ''The Light of the World," emerged again into the limelight he was gravely greeted by the solemn figure of President Hindenburg in tight broadcloth coat and high silk hat. Less formal was an immediately subsequent greeting administered by Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia Otto Braun, who violently shook the Amir...
...compliment. Thus time was gained in which His Majesty visited numerous industrial plants and later the great Tempelhofer flying field. There he was presented with a 10-passenger 3-motored plane worth some $60,000. Doubtless the makers hope for future cash orders from Afghanistan, but last week "The Light of the World" did not so much as take a trial sweep in his expensive toy. What seemed to interest His Majesty most was a military review, during which Reichswehr troops first goose-stepped in mass formation and then staged a sham battle enlivened by dummy tanks, wooden howitzers...
While the huzzahing crowds waited and as he gulped the warm meal his mother had set for him, he told her what he had superlatively done: 1) the longest one-man continuous flight; 2) the longest flight in a light airplane; 3) the fastest journey from England to India; 4) the fastest journey from England to Australia; 5) the first non-stop flight from England to Rome...