Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the blackout which will be announced by the air raid siren tonight, be sure to turn out all lights before retiring. New students especially are reminded that lights may be turned on during the blackout only if their room is equipped with blackout shades. Ordinary shades are not sufficient. Also, no one is to be out-of-doors during the blackout, unless on official ARP business. Violation of blackout rules will result in disciplinary action...
...Photographic Board makes its darkroom, numerous Speed Graphics, and experience in picture-taking of subjects from Max Falkenberg to blackout sequence from the top of Widener available to new candidates...
Fade. In Maurertown, Va., the town decided its test blackout had been a success after an inter-city bus overlooked it in the dark, carried a passenger five miles beyond his destination...
...organize an A. R. P. system. By the end of the year, the University had a fairly smooth-working system under Chief Warden Aldrich Durant '02, 600 trained wardens, an auxiliary fire and auxiliary police service, fire watchers in the House towers, airplane spotters, and first aid experts. Blackout paint and curtains were installed, and liberal quantities of sand, stirrup pumps, and other equipment supplied...
Whatever its shortcomings as a kid-glove social document, This Above All is a remarkably good love story. WAAF-Girl Joan Fontaine, who has what it takes to play lady-in-a-haystack, quietly meets her man (Mr. Power) in the blackout, goes away with him to a seaside resort, where he leaves her, eventually rejoins him for keeps after the Luftwaffe has almost battered his brains out in a London bombing. It is a restrained, sensitive, appealing performance-a tribute to beauteous Joan Fontaine, to the intelligent direction of Anatole Litvak, and to the painstaking coaching of Director Alfred...