Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Honest Liars-A farce, light to the point of being inconsequential...
...steel the flame left molten pools behind it. Significance: steel girders could be welded silently instead of noisily riveted;* the welds would not (as when an oxyhydrogen flame is used) be oxidized and thus weakened, they would be annealing instead. This is important in joining aluminum, magnesium and other light metals.) Alloy metals, too refractory to work with by present methods, could be used for building, thus conserving the world's iron...
...closed course in a Boeing FB-3, the new type of pursuit plane developed for use as a fighting ship flown from the plane-carriers Lexington and Saratoga (TIME, Aug. 9). The Liberty Bell Trophy race was an all-Army affair from first to last, for light bombing planes. Lieut. L. M. Wolfe of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio) dashed home first by a wide margin, 120 mi. at 123.71 m.p.h...
...legend concerned with one of these Apostles [Judas Iscariot] has caused great mischief. That it ever gained credence does not speak well for men's acumen. . . . There is no exaggeration in saying that this legend, which sets a devil up against the figure of light for the sake of an effective background, has caused hundreds of thousands of human beings to be tortured and murdered...
...curiosity about Freud-these and their guardians, too, professors of both sexes, young and old, comfortably pedantic or secretly frustrate, testily brainy or docile and indulgent-even prexies, "the old boy with the gold-headed cane and administrative complex"-all these will suddenly find themselves exposed in a bright light of irony, but a light playing gently, warm with humor and comprehension. More extraordinary, the legendary figure of Andy Protheroe is so keenly and completely alive that it must irresistibly delight that growing herd whose sophistication includes an uninquisitive scorn of mass coeducation...