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Word: daylight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that the Daylight Saving Law has expired, the game will commence at 2 o'clock instead of 3 o'clock

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL PRELIMINARY GAME THIS AFTERNOON | 11/1/1919 | See Source »

...majority of us deplore the failure of Congress to retain the Daylight Saving Bill. The opposition which destroyed it seems to have come from the Middle West, and possibly from the less evident, but all-powerful gas and electric light interests. New York City, by passing its own daylight saving ordinance, shows that it realizes the manifold benefits accruing from the Federal enactment and that it does not plan to await Congressional action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WAY TO DAYLIGHT SAVING. | 10/28/1919 | See Source »

...metropolis points the way. In such a fashion should every city, town and village drive home to its representatives the idea that the majority must rule. The objection of many who decry chronological isolation is answered by those communities and industrial organizations which had daylight saving ordinances of their own in pre-war times and suffered not at all from the experience. Let us stand solidly behind Boston and Massachusetts in any action insuring for us those innumerable benefits which we have enjoyed during the past two summers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WAY TO DAYLIGHT SAVING. | 10/28/1919 | See Source »

...spirited "home Thoughts," Mr. Hood makes skillful use of alternate stress. His poem gives us a number of sharply-etched little pictures of phases of life in the active navy. the reader will remember the line: "The daylight strikes its colors in the West...

Author: By R. W. Coues., | Title: WORK IS OF HIGH CALIBRE IN MAY HARVARD MAGAZINE | 5/10/1919 | See Source »

...effort to impede the success of the federal amendment will drive the country to bolshevism. If you are on the other side of that question your point is that the failure to give people their liquor will turn them willy-nilly to bolshevism. We received many letters on the daylight savings movement in which the adherents of each side wanted it, not for their own comfort or convenience, but in order to save the country from bolshevism. The farmers would surely go over to that dread doctrine if the city dwellers luxuriously carved out an extra hour in the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bolshevism" Defined. | 3/18/1919 | See Source »

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