Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Light and amusing entertainment...
Next day Sport Writer Williams of the New York Evening Tele-grunt meditated gravely on teacups and the apparent discrepancies between opera and sports arena. Mr. Williams distinctly recalled a recent prizefight in which Michael McTigue lost the light-heavyweight championship to Thomas Loughran (TIME, Oct. 17), chiefly, according to Mr. Williams, because, Mr. McTigue waited until the last rest between rounds to "toss off" a teacup of something. He recalled Rube Wadell, baseball pitcher, who sat over his teacups all one night before his pitching masterpiece?a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...hydrophone is one of the most important instruments in modern navigation," Lieutenant G. B. Myers, one of the naval officers stationed at the Engineering School told a CRIMSON reporter. "Electric beacons are being used now where formerly light houses and bells were the only guides at dangerous points. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not so seriously affected by conditions of the weather. The depth of water under a ship at any time can be instantly determined by electric means...
...afternoon's bender and just sick because she can't stay for the tea dancing. To her, everything--including her escort--is wonderful. Her room mate knows a man who is substitute something on Dartmouth's second team and my dear, you should see him: priceless! A light line but she manages to cover territory in a surprisingly short period of time...