Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
Minister Smiddy's large Irish audience must have recalled the vile, unlighted, peat-huts in which some of them were born. Into these, electric light! The old Ireland passes...
...view of that attitude and in the light of the existing moral facts as we have noted them what should be the message of the church...
...Secondly, the Church should cooperate with the findings of modern science, and urge the use of scientific discoveries which tend to the upward development of the race. If, for instance, in the light of modern knowledge, the upward development of humanity seems to point to a greater emphasis upon family life, then the Church should urge the latter to be maintained at all hazards. But if upward development seems to lie in any other direction, then to maintain the solidity of the family against it, is not being an intelligent guide. I am not saying which way science seems...
...criticized the methods of his department sharply as follows: German budget estimates are unfortunately obscure in their method of stating transactions . . . lack clearness . . . [which is] both unnecessary and unfortunate. . . . The effect of all this procedure is to present the financial position of the Reich in a most artificial light. . . ." Having deplored these methods of German State accountancy, Mr Gilbert proceeded to point out expenditures in the German budget where he thought there ought to have been savings. He declared: "The budget estimates for 1927-28 carry total expenditures of 9,100,000,000 marks, as compared with...