Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates?can impose a veto on the aspirations of any candidate. McAdoo is likely to control this type of veto against the Smith-Underwood group. The Smith-Underwood group is not unlikely to have a similar stop on McAdoo. The logic of the situation calls loudly for a dark horse, especially since most of the delegates have second choices...
...Governing Boards of the University, members of Faculties, guests and alumni are requested to assemble in front of Massachusetts Hall at 9.45 A. M. Candidates for degrees in gowns or dark clothes will assemble under the direction of their respective marshals at 9.45 A. M. in the following order:--All speakers and the candidates for the degrees of A. B. and A. A., near the east end of Holworthy Hall. Candidates for S.B., near the west end of Holworthy Hall, Candidates for A.M., Ph.D.; S.B. in the various branches of Engineering and Mining, S. M. in the various branches...
...potassium in a vacuum tube. It is so sensitive to light that any ray falling on it causes the electrons to fly from its surface, generating an electric current. As the cylinder revolves, the point of light passes through the transparent film and falls upon the potassium. In the dark parts of the picture less light gets through, and in the light parts, more. The current initiated by the photo-electric cell varies in strength exactly as the intensity of the light that reaches it. The fluctuations of the current are shunted onto the telephone wire and added...
Broadway "dark as Tenth Avenue before the end of Summer...
...solace of the underclassman and the graduate student after a fatiguing day in the library or the laboratory; and "without doubt," as the New York Times suggests, "there are those professors and dignitaries of the university who find great enjoyment in puffing away the hours in the dark corners of the theatre...