Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haugen bill or its equivalent; that the Republican tariff was not doing the western farmer any good; that it took more than one good year to alleviate farm distress. Most significant, he said that candidates for South Dakota's endorsement in the presidential primaries would be judged in the light of their position on the McNary-Haugen bill...
...present sitting in an extinct South African crater continuing this work, an immediate purpose of which is to facilitate long-range weather prediction. But far more difficult to measure than the sun's heat, and of more abstruse scientific value, is the heat of stars many light years† away...
...light year equals approximately 5,765,696,000,000 miles-the distance light can travel through air in one year...
Officials of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, having learned the health value of special window glasses that permit the passage of ultraviolet sun light (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1), ordered 18 stories of their new bank building now going up at Broad & Wall Streets, Manhattan, glazed throughout with this glass...
...genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...