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...March 5, 1942 occupants of all premises or parts of premises, public and private, shall extinguish all lights or darken the premises so that no light is visible from the outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THURSDAY AIR RAID RULES PUBLISHED | 3/3/1942 | See Source »

...getting a little brighter on the Crimson hoop horizon, but it is up to the team whether this weekend's double-header with Princeton and Penn will darken it for the rest of the season...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Hoopsters Face Penn, Princeton | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

...through August, under the blue skies of Central China, the blue-robed, sun-browned peasants had watched their rice fields slowly darken in green, then fade to the color of straw. Within their firm husks the grains of rice had whitened and hardened. It would be a good harvest. Prices were dropping in anticipation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN FRONT: The Battle of Rice | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Fact was, Roosevelt, Perkins, William Davis, vice chairman of the Mediation Board, were all reluctant to call in the board except as a last resort. The risk of failure in this toughest of all disputes was much too great; failure would darken a good early record and spoil the growing psychological effect of a so-far-triumphant board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The South Secedes | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AND PEACE: Passage to India | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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