Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shot in the Dark. In Atlanta, blind Walter McDonald went on a turkey shoot, was first to bag a bird...
...Dark Age. In St. Nazianz, Wis., after long postponed repairs were finally completed, street lights went on again for the first time since a 1922 storm put them...
Robert Lubchansky, as Alceste, to whom the whole world is "detestable," bears the brunt of the exposition of a role on which Moliere leaves his audience as judge. Lubchansky's interpretation is most notable for its absence, and although he competently portrays Alceste's disillusionment and dark anger, he plays the role straight, leaving his listeners to decide whether he is a justifiably pessimistic cynic or a ridiculous crank...
Scientists are always wondering about something, and Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan got to wondering about owls. He wondered whether the owl was really such a traditionally wise old bird, whether it could find its way home in the dark-whether, in fact, it was all it was cracked up to be. Dr. Dice built a light-tight "reaction room." There was a perch near the top and a dim, adjustable light. He put a dead mouse on the sand-covered floor, shut an owl inside, and waited for results...
...Owls cannot see in total darkness. Unlike bats, which navigate by the echoes of their own high-pitched squeaks, owls need some light, but not much. Light as dim as a single candle burning nearly half a mile away was bright enough for a barred owl to find his mouse. Barn owls needed slightly more. The floor of a thick forest on an overcast, moonless night is considerably darker-too dark for an owl to get around in and see what he's up to. Under such murky conditions, Dr. Dice's experiments indicated, an owl flies...