Word: lights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last time Winnie Ruth Judd went to Los Angeles she traveled with two trunks and a valise-in them the dismembered bodies of two women friends. Last week she traveled light...
...with a definite offense against the law nor for more than three months without a public trial. . . . No man shall be subjected to any sort of mutilation or sterilization except with his own deliberate consent. ... He shall not be subjected to imprisonment with such an excess of silence, noise, light or darkness ars to cause mental suffering. ... He shall not be forcibly fed nor prevented from starving himself if he so desire. . . . The extreme punishments to which he may be subjected are rigorous imprisonment for a term of not longer than 15 years or death. . . . The provisions and principles embodied...
...Milky Way, each containing billions of stars, were sometimes huddled in groups which he calls "super-galaxies." Last week he reported the discovery, made by astronomers at Harvard's observatory in South Africa, of two new, far-off super-galaxies, each of which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, the bigger Cepheids...
Last week there were glimmers of light in the gloom. Luxembourg was still silent, but Normandie was back (identified now as International Broadcasting Co.), from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m., with all its old zip and a set of sponsors recommending such soldier-boy comforts as Reudel's Rest-Your-Feet Salts, Freezone Corn Cure, Horlick's Night Starvation Dried Milk. After business hours, Normandie continued to do its bit till 1 a. m., broadcasting propaganda to Austrians and Czechs...
...Flying," writes Wolfgang Langewiesche, "is now possible for any person of normal intelligence who is in good health and is financially able to eat regularly." It costs $275 or less to build up the flying time required for a private license.* Thanks to the light loads their large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof. They cost as little as $1,098 new, far less at secondhand, may be hired at 4? per seat per mile. In one such...