Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Claudius could be mean. She was always chasing children out of her littered yard, sometimes caught and beat them. Once she saw a man short-cutting through her yard, made him pay 10? toll. Miss Claudius probably saved the dime. She spent almost no money, had no heat, light, water in her house. For a bathroom she used the Ladies' Room at the Lincoln Savings Bank. At closing time one afternoon, the employes heard strange noises in the Ladies' Room. Miss Claudius was inside, reading aloud from a law book. She knew and could quote...
...light of this prospectus issued to the American people in 1932, the Program Committee has conscientiously audited the actual "state of the nation" after nearly seven years of New Deal control and before the abnormal stimulus of war demands began to blur the evidence of the basic soundness or unsoundness of the Administration's domestic policies...
...third week in succession criticism (as rare in recent Japan as whales in the Mississippi) broke out in the Diet. Three weeks ago Takao Saito said the country was tired of war. Then Kiroku Oguchi said some of Japan's shortages and hardships could be avoided if the light industries, with the vital export trade they nourish, were not sacrificed for the sake of war industries. Last week Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita was repeatedly criticized. And Ryozo Makino bitterly attacked War Minister Shunroku Hata for keeping military finances secret. "The people are uneasy," warned Member Makino. But War Minister...
Five heavy and three light Freshman crews have been working out in the indoor tank at Newell Boathouse since the rowing season officially started. Expecting to be on the river by March 10, Coach Harvey Love plans to cut the heavies down to three crews by the time of Spring Vacation, through which be will row the crews twice...
With their main strength lying in the light weights, the Sailors will have an advantage over the Crimson, because injuries have put two of the three Harvard lightweights out of action. Ted Schoenberg will be the only light regular to wrestle, with Harry Blaine taking Jim Redmon's place at 128 and Louis Daly replacing Ray Stone...