Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That also reminds me of the many times your magazine and also The March of Time have spoken and written about the old German gods Wodin and Thor, etc. These are essentially Danish, from away back into the dark 400 A.D. and were known as Odin and Thor, hence the weekdays, Onsdag (Wednesday) & Torsdag (Thursday) ; and Fredag (Friday) from Freja (j pronounced as y), Goddess of Beauty and Intelligence...
...west all the way under the moon's shadow to where the sun shone more than 150 miles away. This low saffron brightness ascended steadily during the eclipse. At the centre it went all around to about 10° above the horizon, above that changing gradually to a dark blue. After totality the shadow was seen in the high haze to the east for several minutes...
When James Hampton Kirkland of Spartanburg, S. C., eight years out of the University of Leipzig, took over Vanderbilt in 1893, it was chiefly because the bickering Methodist Episcopal bishops who ran it could agree on none but a dark horse candidate. Twenty years earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee...
...Pennsylvania Legislature has already complimented the pair by passing a law to prevent anybody else from being so profitably smart in the future. But dark, curly-haired, bespectacled Lawyer Edelman and round-faced, blue-eyed, dressy Lawyer Creskoff who filed their informations back in 1935, are not worried...
...Common and back on Washington Street the Vagabond picks the least objectionable of the Double Features, and he too climbs the carpeted stairway to emerge from the dark onto the top of the world, follows the dancing spot of the flashlight to a seat, and settles back to laugh or cry with housewives and clerks under the spell of the Celluloid Muse...