Word: light
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...love, serve, obey, and exalt the United States of America. . . . To keep alive the cult with Italy as the Fatherland and the eternal light of civilization and greatness. . . . To submit to the discipline of the hierarchy of the Fascist League of North America...
Standard Gas and Electric Co., holding company for many potent utility operating companies, supplies electric power and light, gas, water, telephones and street railways, reaching, with one or more of its services, 1,514 U. S. communities with a population of more than 6,000,000. Large Standardized communities include Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Louisville, Tacoma, San Diego, Stockton and San Francisco. Under the control of Henry M. Byllesby & Co., Chicago utility financing house, Standard rates as the largest U. S. electricity, gas and traction system...
Previous experience is not necessary and the work will be made as light as possible during the examination period...
Professor Lundmark in his paper told of his exploration among the spiral nebulae which are at a distance of 500,000 to 150,000,000 light years from the earth. Although these nepulae are smaller in themselves by much than our own galactic system, nevertheless they seem to come in groups of thousands or so, and Lundmark has advanced the important theory that each group of these comprises a separate system such as ours...
...Shapley's most recent research has been concerned with variable stars in the large Magellanic cloud. This cloud seems to be another system rather like the one in which we are whirled about Sagittarius. Dr. Shapley has found, by examination of the Cepheids variables in this cloud that the light from certain ones waxes and wanes, the period which the change in brightness takes having a direct relation, through the average brightness, to the distance of the Cepheids from us. In this way he has calculated that the large Magellanic cloud is 86,000 light years away from...