Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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According to the bletter of the Metropolitan Police. Officers James E. Cronin and H.J. Sullivan noticed a light in the right-hand upper corner of the building while they were cruising along Soldiers Field Read in one of the police Fords at about 3.15 o'clock yesterday morning. Finding the front door unlatched, the officers entered with their revolvers ready, believing that they had the thug trapped. A minute examination of the building, however, failed to reveal the miscreant. Police offered for an explanation of the escape, the possibility that the fugitive had taken to the water...
Professor Merriman will speak first, to be followed by President Lowell. After the addresses. Ellery Sedgwick '32 and W. S. Warner '32 will give an exhibition of prestidigitation and magic. Two motion pictures, a Grantland Rice "Sport-light," and an animated cartoon, will provide the final entertainment before the refreshments. Corn-cob pipes, inscribed with the usual red H and the class numerals, will be given out as souvenirs to all the men who are present...
...week he sadly recited the above figures to his convention. Yet he was optimistic. "That we be not discouraged let us bear in mind that there are 35,000,000 reasonably normal, cheerful human electrons radiating joy and mischief and hope and faith. Their faces are turned toward the light-theirs is the life of great adventure...
...package of matches in Germany costs 1.95 pfennigs. Enough bonalin to light 30 cigarets can be purchased for .8 pfennig. Lighters originated in Vienna 25 years ago. Their popularity waned, was revived by soldiers during the War who were not allowed matches. Today a lighter can be had in England for 10½, in France for 20½. Germany sells an exact replica of the expensive British Dunhill lighter ($5 in other countries...
Like most scientists nowadays, Jeans is not dogmatic about science. "We cannot claim to have discerned more than a very faint glimmer of light at the best . . . our main contention can hardly be that the science of today has a pronouncement to make, perhaps it ought rather to be that science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself...