Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress in lighting was evident. Oldsmobile and Oakland had added the tilt-ray control, already used by Cadillac; and McFarlan showed the Ryan head lamp which gives an unusually diffused light, including a strong sidewise light which makes the spot light unnecessary...
...features, surrounded by tug boats, press boats, ferryboats, launches, shouted at by coaches, fed by trainers, 96 able swimmers got into the cold water at Catalina Island, one day last week and turned their numerous, goggled, and determined faces toward the unseen California mainland, 2 miles away. Day faded. Light came out on the shore. Now an then on the bow of a tug a trainer lit a red flare to show that his swimmer was out of the race. Slowly, doggedly, the rest splashed...
College men who have been taught that the greatest sacrifice one can commit in the sacred precincts of Widener is to light a match or steal a book must recognize in the probable innovation of the Business School Library a sign of the times. It will be the first time smoking has ever been permitted in any college library...
...expected that Law sometimes loses its dignity. If such instances were few and far between, they might be discounted, but many cases have recently come up where the tradition of "majesty" as a necessary attribute to law seems to have been disregarded. The Tennessee anti-evolution law, brought to light a year and a half ago, might be dismissed as a rara avis if it were not for the fact that the same law was recently brought up in a bill in Minnesota to introduce it there. The State of Nebraska considered the advisability of jailing "sheiks" and "vamps...
...What!" expostulated the inquisitive one, frantically searching about in his pockets for pen and paper and a propitious beam of light from the flickering are light overhead...