Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowing brows shot up in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore one day last summer at sight of two well-known townsmen in conference over a lunch table in a dark corner. One of them was James H. Rand Jr., brisk, bulky president of Remington Rand, Inc., world's biggest makers of office equipment. The other was gruff, blocky Pearl Louis Bergoff, No. 1 U. S. strikebreaker...
...Hold back thy hours, dark Night, till we have done...
...Maybe kiss bacteria go to town under a microscope, but I'll bet they're helpless in the dark...
...Esmaro was built by Bath Iron Works. So was Hugh Joseph Chisholm's 244-ft. Aras and Eldridge Reeves Johnson's 279-ft. Caroline. Biggest yacht contract Bath Iron Works ever got was for J. P. Morgan's fourth Corsair, which was launched in the dark days of 1930 amid a fusillade of anonymous letters threatening to dynamite the 343-ft. ship before she left the ways...
23rd. Got down to New Haven Saturday morning in three hours ten minutes. A weather eye for blue uniforms in dark Fords on the way but no mishap. Ten thousand men of Harvard cluttering the lobby of the Taft. Steering my love through the swirl and, just for fun, the open-air trolley out to the Bowl. Gulping excitement before the game that lasted till Yale's second score and then died into despair but came bounding back again with the second-half surge. My voice gone midway the third period, creaking come on, come on, come on, come...