Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dimout edict, which stressed the necessity for obedience to the Army's regulations and noted "several defects," made no mention of the area blackout that took place before Christmas vacation. Durant, however, stated that, as far as he knew, the test had been near perfect in the University and that he had received no complaints...
...they're now treating poor Willard Gibbs, who during his lifetime car hardly have been considered any great shakes at New Haven." Readers unable to place (Josiah) Willard Gibbs need not fret about it. Paradoxically, Gibbs is perhaps best known for his obscurity, a personal blackout which has become legendary. Professors, publicists, prominent Yale men for years have publicly confessed ignorance of Yale's most distinguished son. But by those in the know he has been acclaimed repeatedly as one of the greatest men of his time...
Clarke would take his wife to the cinema and walk home in the blackout by the Laytons Black Path. There Clarke would bend down to tie his shoelace. Swales was to beat Mrs. Clarke on the head...
...beats were out because "Moscow is not the kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...
According to Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, last night's blackout test was a complete success. The University dimmed its lights and hid under a bushel in the required two minutes with only a small incident in Holworthy marring the tranquility of the evening...