Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weapons began to flicker in the half-light of the prison-daggers and stilletos wrought out of files, kitchen utensils, shovels, razor blades. One man had an automatic pistol. As Turnkey Singleton stammered his answers, some one shoved a knife in his back. Someone else struck him deep in the stomach...
Having settled his light, sturdy frame in an easy stance, having stroked once his neat grey mustache, Sir Esme became comfortably and consolingly humorous on the subject of such anti-British tirades as are hurled from the U. S. by William Hale Thompson, blatant Mayor of Chicago (TIME...
...Right Honorable Members, grown restless, welcomed a diversion caused when the electric light circuit of the House was interrupted for more than an hour. The Speaker uttered, for the first time in a decade, an antique command: "Let candles be brought in!" When debate was recommenced by candlelight, jocund Members testified to the inconsequence of the proceedings by blowing out the candles as fast as they were lighted, until it became necessary to adjourn the House while electricians tinkered...
Several important changes have occurred in University wrestling prospects since the beginning of practice. Captain T. D. Howe Jr. '28 has increased in weight since last year from 178 to 192 pounds, so that he will wrestle in the heavyweight instead of the light heavyweight class, and new material has rounded out the squad...
...possible, the tutorial reading will be made a means of throwing light upon the course assignments, and of giving the student a unified view of the diverse subjects on which he will be reading. Essays on economic subjects are especially effective for this purpose...