Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barrels of beer for a "victory" celebration as 7,000 workers prepared to return to the last closed plant of the independent steel companies. Stoutly the S. W. O. C. maintained that the strike was not yet lost. Though this certainly appeared to be whistling in the dark, it was equally certain that the four steel allies-Bethlehem. Republic, Inland and Youngstown Sheet & Tube-had not heard the last of S. W. O. C. From now on the strike will become a campaign of attrition-to harass the companies at every step with the hope of raising the cost...
...last day dawned dark and dripping, with the wind whipping higher every hour, the kind of weather in which U. S. professionals like to play bridge or write their memoirs. Carnoustie was now at its most devilish, the greens so waterlogged they had to be swept off with long canes, the footing so treacherous that a man could scarcely swing. One by one the U. S. professionals bogged down miserably. Dudley hooked consistently, fell back with a 78 in the morning round. Hagen was stuck with 80, Shute with 76. Only young Byron Nelson and Charles Lacey, British by birth...
...Elmira, N. Y., where the Soaring Society of America was holding its eighth annual meet last week, the air one day was heavy with a threat of squally weather. Lightning glimmered occasionally in the distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds...
...Antoine Henri Becquerel of France left some uranium salts lying in the dark near a photographic plate. When he developed the plate he found that some sort of rays from the uranium, passing through a metal container and several other obstacles, had left an image on the plate. Thus by accident Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie, discovered radioactivity...
...average is 500 or less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask on the surface in the dark. While the tidal mudflats, owned by the Government, show no signs of worm depletion, vigilant Maine has an anti-poaching law with a $50 fine for out-of-Maine worm poachers. Unlike oyster beds which require occasional reseeding, Maine's worm muds seem inexhaustible. But Maine is taking...