Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Professor Wright gives a clear lecture full of good material. However, he cannot lighten it by anecdotes or any other touches which are not strictly concerned with the subject matter; for in one half a year he has to cover all American Constitutional History from the calling of the Constitutional Convention to the present time. The classes are relieved now and then by discussions of cases of the U. S. Supreme Court which are less boring if less enlightening...
Meanwhile in the Belgica Capt. Ernest de Muyter (fourtimes winner) with Leon Coeckelbaerg fought lightning, snow and loss of altitude. All ballast gone, Coeckelbaerg slid down the drag rope into a tree to lighten the load, but the bag settled at Adams, Mass., a 435 mi. mark. For the co-pilot's heroism, disqualification was threatened...
...pajamas in city streets. It was by public discussion that night-work for women was banned, that the 12-hour day was abolished, and that child labor was barred. It was by exposing dirty linen that public opinion arose and forced, the dictatorial coal companies of Pennsylvania to lighten their tyrannical oppression over the coal miners, and caused labor unions to be recognized everywhere. Public discussion has been the moving cause of nearly every great reform and should be used here to help the University catch up with the world and humanize its employment policy...
Asked if elimination of tariff boundaries would lighten the work of naval conferences by removing one of the causes of war, Professor Friedrich said, "Yes, I am convinced that the principle of free trade is sound, but to put it in practice is a difficult matter. Now obviously you can't abolish all tariffs suddenly. What is needed is a policy of long-continued, gradual reduction, and it is woefully hard for a country to stick to such a policy when the government changes every four years or oftener...
...other young women who constantly arrive as "dancers" or "entertainers" were either kept from knowledge of Mrs. Lighten Robinson, and so could not apply to her for rescue, or do not consider themselves White Slaves...