Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer in Okolona, Miss., landed in Washington in 1929, to handle the real-estate affairs of a Chicago banking firm. One day he laughingly suggested a personal publicity gag to Mississippi's amiable Senator Pat Harrison: "Why not mention my name where it will be heard, as a dark-horse candidate for a District of Columbia commissionership?" Pat did. Somewhat to his horror, the dark horse was chosen...
Charity amid Disaster. The transportation of our wounded is difficult. Were we to carry them on the shaky litters in the dark, they would suffer unbearable pain and lose dangerously large quantities of blood. Our rescuing angel in this difficult situation is a Japanese Protestant pastor. He has brought up a boat and offers to take our wounded upstream to a place where progress is easier...
...there a sample of how things were. The new power plant could supply more current than Minsk used before the war. But few Minsk streets are lighted: enough iron for lamp posts, wire for circuits and bulbs for lighting are not to be had. Even public buildings are dark. Though Minsk has power to burn, factories that might consume it cannot get building materials, transport or machines...
...that the bright star, Alpha Ophiuchi, had a very significant wobble. After watching it for years, he had decided that it must be the dominant member of a couple. Apparently, it was revolving once in eight and a half years around a dimmer star. He did not see the "dark companion" -"dark" only by comparison with the glare of Alpha Ophiuchi...
...child's eyes, still the same dull blue they were at birth, move jerkily, and a whitish tissue may be seen behind the pupils. Boston Eye Specialist Dr. Theodore L. Terry believes that exposure to too-early light may be the cause, recommends keeping the baby in the dark...