Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light in 1878. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-) shortly was to develop a clanking generator and the incandescent lamp, and Elihu Thomson (1853-) his 500 and more industrial applications...
...made marionettes of A, B and C in the arithmetic textbooks, pulling the strings with his left hand while he thumbed trade reports with his right. Between lectures on political science he cried out for laughing social philosophers, showing that, while Cardinal Newman had only asked for light, Charles Dickens had given it, and brazenly declaring that he would rather have written Alice's Adventures in Wonderland than the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...