Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Power. After long debate, despite anxious protests from potent lobbyists, the Committee on Interstate Commerce voted that an inquisitor and four aides should proceed, as urged by Inquisitor Walsh, to explore the character and practices of light, gas and power corporations doing interstate business or controlled by holding corporations in other states. Political as well as financial practices were in Inquisitor Walsh's mind, "to determine whether these have been other Insulls." Many a State's attitude toward the impending Power Probe was voiced by Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, who said: "The people of Ohio will...
...native enthusiasm. Lindbergh was not swamped on disembarkation by crazy students, girls detailed to kiss him, autograph hunters, well wishers, drunks, people. The second experience was an unexpected message from the local Congress requesting in no mild terms freedom for Porto Rico. Apparently there is far less sweetness and light in West Indian relations with U. S. than press dispatches and Lindbergh welcoming crowds might indicate. The Colonel refused to state whether or not, or to whom he would deliver the message. The third experience was a Rotary Club dinner with no speeches...
Behind the heavy bier and the light saddle walked three princes: Edward of Wales, Albert of York and Prince Henry, representing their father the King-Emperor.* Then, bravely, resolutely, came Dorothy Countess Haig, her head and figure bowed and heavily veiled...
Through the light-splotched, angular passages of TutankhAmen's 3,300-year-old tomb at Luxor, Egypt, went Howard Carter and his troupe of delvers to make their ultimate uncovering in the burial chamber of the king, so gorgeously gilded after his youthful death. A great box of translucent alabaster had not been opened...
There will be one limitation only. The lecturer will have no pointer long enough to reach the outermost stars at the top of the planetarium. He will use a beam of light instead...