Word: litted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerable number of moons have lit the stark ruins of the Coliseum at Rome since the Socialist members boycotted the Chamber of Deputies and established headquarters on the Aventine Hill (TIME...
There is a rule common to most, if not all, foxhunters, that there must be no smoking while "in the pink" (dressed in the scarlet hunt coat). Last week, Prince Henry, the King's third son, absentmindedly pulled out his pipe and lit it while waiting for the hounds to pick up the scent. Members of the hunt looked aghast, but their amazement quickly changed to delight; and in five minutes some 20 pipes were going. Thus was another precedent created...
Roman traditions go back to the last century when Lombroso advanced his theory of the "born criminal type"*and practically originated the science of criminology. Ideas have gone far since then, but the concept of the criminal as lit subject for scientific examination and treatment has persisted. Dr. Ottolenghi is an outstanding exponent. "Even today," said he, "many estimable authorities do not recognize the intimate relation between criminology and pathology. ... A pickpocket who for future identification is merely 'fingerprinted' may, if properly examined, be found to have highly developed homicidal tendencies. The same may be true...
...attacks upon towns, gases and vapors are not very effective (except, of course, that they would cause indescribable panic) for the simple reason that rooms above the ground, level are fairly complete anti-gas chambers, provided that no fires are lit to draw air into them. The destructive capacity of a gas shell or bomb is insignificant. It will be high explosives, which cause houses to crash, that will apparently supply the chief danger to the cities and towns in the next war. Moreover, to get an effective concentration of gas in cities behind the firing lines, an enormous concentration...
Dawes' Senate-Reform. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison led off with a story: "It is said that once a fly lit upon the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Crawling across one of the seamlike connections, he flew away to tell the other flies that he had discovered a terrible defect in this, the greatest work of Sir Christopher Wren. I commend this story to General Dawes...