Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy fines are imposed upon anyone who harms them. In the daytime the Joey leads a rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...
Direly though Franklin Roosevelt needed more such men for his second term, his need and their departure were kept as dark as possible. "Help Wanted" signs would merely multiply his troubles with jobseekers...
...Burnt River, Ont., a white dog was grazed by a bolt of lightning, had its fur scorched a dark brown...
...20th Century he would have become an astronomer. One thing Astronomer Shakespeare would have had to get straight from the start is the different classes of nebulae. Astronomers apply nebula not only to whole galaxies of stars far beyond the Milky Way. but also to patches of dark or faintly luminous matter within the Milky Way, which is the home galaxy of earthlings. They may be distinguished by calling the local patches galactic nebulae, the great outer star clusters extragalactic nebulae. About 100 of the nebulae within the Milky Way are planetary: that is, they have a star...
...children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most sensible character in the story, Renée nevertheless has more than a little of the mysterious in her makeup: an undisclosed past, a touch of African blood in her veins, strange intuitions, dark, puzzling eyes. She is a rock of common sense compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre Séverin, who mutters ominously that she must pay no attention to what his parents say against him, dreads her leaving, but seems so helpless in doing anything about it that he gives...