Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dark days have overtaken Monte Carlo. Britons, who before World War II made up half of the gambling Casino's clientele, are now rare winter migrants. Due to British currency restrictions, the few who come to Monaco have little or nothing to gamble with. Some 95% of the current tourists are French who are equally indigent...
...sportswear workers in Los Angeles, only 4,200 are unionized). All of them took to the area's informal outdoor living and, with no pretensions toward high style, began turning out comfortable, colorful, casual clothes in bright, modernistic factories as different from Manhattan's dark lofts as their bathing suits were from those of 1890. By 1943, 85% of the industry's annual output was going east of the Rockies...
...when astronomers try to look at the center of the "home" or Milky Way galaxy to which our own sun belongs, they see practically nothing. It is comparatively near, but dark, cosmic clouds frustrate their peering telescopes, and it is estimated that less than 1/1,000 of the ordinary blue photographic light from the galaxy center gets through the obscuring interstellar dust...
Luckily, many stars are eclipsed by the moon. When this happens, the star does not vanish instantaneously. Instead, it makes the moon cast, for one-fiftieth of a second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But the bands are 30 feet apart, and they race past a telescope's lens at more than 1,000 miles per hour. No photographic plate or observer's eye is big enough or fast enough to catch them...
...DARK WOOD (303 pp.)-Christine Weston-Scribner...