Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident interest of your readers in ultraviolet light and heliotherapy leads us to inform you that actinic glass which transmits this radiation is already available on a commercial scale...
...light of recent events in certain states,* some of our citizens would modify the methods of selecting candidates for office. If the present system encourages or permits the contribution of inordinate sums by wealthy candidates or their supporters, it should receive the most careful scrutiny by honest citizens...
There have recently come to light in the archives of Wldener Library some rules for Freshman passed at Yale College about 1787. These regulate the doings of the Freshmen from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. Some of the most explicit clauses are those dealing with the matter of taking off and putting on of hats with specific attention to the prevention of catching acids. The baring and the covering of the head is thus mathematically regulated in the Freshman Constitution...
Statistics are a very useful Institution. If one is in possession of the right statistics he can prove almost anything. Some of the latest significant figures have been brought to light in Prussia where it is shown that out of more than a thousand schools 136 are named for the Hohenzolierns, 12 for Schiller, 10 for Goethe Hindenburg and Bismarck and only two for Martin Luther. This is indeed an important revelation and one which should do much to throw light on world affairs. It clearly demonstrates in the first place that a Hohenzollerns revival is immanent or that there...
...these days of strict scrutiny of mankind hardly a thing exsists in regard to which some one does not cry, "Something ought to be done about it!" The latest wrinkle in reforms has been brought to light by Le Figaro in the shape of a conference at Amsterdam to do something about the severely detrimental economic effects of rheumatism. The statisticians of this gathering have discovered that by limbering up the world three million days would be saved annually; they have the will to accomplish this result, "mais comment?" as Le Figaro concludes...