Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France, near Treves, a shrine built by Gauls to Mithras, god of light, was found. Mithras was a Persian deity, a strong rival of Christianity during the first three centuries...
Electricians were busy last week on the roof of a hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia...
...Opinions vary on height above ground a jumper must be for his parachute to open safely. Some say he falls 150 feet before floating; soberest flyers prefer 1,000 feet to light safely...
...small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...
...carpenters. When the Chicago fire wiped out the property of others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest of the shrewd at winning cases in the confusion of the rebuilding city. Behind his shrewdness lay industry. His cross-examinations had the steady light of careful preparation rather than inspirational brilliance. In 1882, only thirteen years after he began private practice, his friends made him County Judge of Dupage County. After two four-year terms he refused a third carrying his title back to his own practice, which in 1852 began to be identified with...