Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the kind of step his successor, Victor O. Schmidt, did. Schmidt sleuthed campuses, found evidence that coaches and alumni were breaking rules in entertaining and recruiting star high-school athletes for conference teams. He thereupon fined every college in the conference last week. Oregon State College got off lightest: its fine was $25. The biggest was slapped on the best team: U.C.L.A., the conference champion, was fined...
Behind this simple procedure is a radical innovation. In conventional photography, the light which comes through the lens forms a "latent image" in the silver bromide of the film. A proper chemical "developer" darkens this image by turning its silver bromide into black metallic silver. In the negative, the lightest parts of the scene photographed show up blackest, the dark spots show up lightest. To reverse the negative and get a print, the photofinisher goes through the whole dark-into-light process again...
Androcles and the Lion (by Bernard Shaw; produced by the American Repertory Theatre) gets about the lightest treatment that Shaw ever gave to a serious subject. Thirty-three years ago he pilfered the fable of Androcles-who by being kind to a lion in the forest was spared when they met in the arena-to embroider it with comment on religion and early Christian martyrs. He wound up reducing the fable to a kind of farce...
...FITZGERALD, ex-Notre Dame gridder who at 170 pounds is the lightest regular on the, Eli squad, scored three touchdowns against the Crimson last year. He is a deceptively smooth runner whose passing ability is only excelled by that of Furse...
...little can a full-grown man weigh and still live? Canadian doctors this week believed they had treated the sickest, lightest, most wasted man on record...