Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That evening it was discovered that the percolator had been left connected too long, had run down the battery of the royal car until no current remained to light the lights.* Resigned, Her Majesty went to bed at dusk, awoke next morning as her train entered Paris, after 48 hours of travel...
Prevention lies with maintaining sound health, cure with nourishing foods, plentiful clean air, abundant sunshine. (Ultraviolet light, from quartz lamps has proven efficacious substitute for sunlight...
...Philadelphia. A great crowd flocked to the Academy of Music one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer...
There came to light last week a letter revealing one of the cruelest tricks one civilized being could well play upon another. It was a letter left by the late Professor Paul Kammerer, famed biologist, who ascended a small hill near Vienna last month and shot himself. For a year the scientific world had reverberated with Professor Kammerer's report that, by experiment upon frogs, he had proved to his immensely critical satisfaction that acquired characteristics, such as the loss of an arm, blotches on the skin, could be passed from one generation to another. It was contrary...
...partly was also fortunate in sighting a glacier bear, a rare variation of the black bear, found only in the glacial regions of Alaska. Its coat is light gray, similar to that of an ordinary gray squirrel. Comparatively few of these animals have ever been seen or studied, as they are extremely scarce...