Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bread that was whiter, Or rolls that were lighter, Than those that they serve you at Ronda
Onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, in a Stamford, Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...
These figures are excessively top-heavy on the classical side. Estimates at Dartmouth, B. C., and the Little Three reveal a decisive leading toward lighter types more nearly recording the same figures in reversed order. Yale, however, tends to reach Harvard's mark...
Fell in with a carefree group of those clever Yale News boys on the street-car going up to the bowl. One of them tried to give me a hot-foot with his cigarette lighter. He was all out of fluid though--one of the other boys admitted he had drunk...
They did not enjoy it long. The Narrows bridge heaved like a hammock. Sometimes a car approaching would seem to drop clear out of sight with an undulation of the roadway. Yet the bridge was strong. Heavy winds failed to shake it; but when lighter, intermittent breezes swept in from the open Sound, it was agitated by a peculiar weaving, sinuous motion that its builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind...