Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This train composed of four Pullman cars and as many coaches as the ticket sales justify will leave the South Station at 8:20 o'clock, Daylight Saving Time; the train returning from New Haven will leave at 8 o'clock the same evening. Tickets for either of these trains may be obtained...
...side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis) ; one on the far west side with headquarters in Cicero where famed "Scarface Al" Caponi is king (TIME, Oct. 11). Their wars are flamboyant spectacles-a multi-punctured body on the steps of the Holy Name Cathedral in broad daylight, two more corpses across the street at the door of a florist's shop . . . the funeral of Dion O'Banion, with $30,000 worth of flowers, with thugs and city officials tramping solemnly side by side . . . "Scarface Al" Caponi sitting quietly in the restaurant of his Cicero hotel...
...slow, yellow gas engulfed London, suddenly, one morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...
Objections to the radical step go back to the times of Sir Walter Raleigh and his introduction of smoking into England. It was never permitted in libraries, some of them to this day in England barring electric lights, confining research work to the hours of daylight...
...inventive energy exerted during the War, and its later overflow into commercial and popular radio when peace came, are well known. It was not, however, until 1924, that we fully appreciated the superiority of short waves over long ones for daylight work. It is with short waves that all my present experiments are concerned; with short waves that I have supplied the British Postoffice with its Canadian 'beam' service and propose linking the entire Empire. Here still, not to divagate upon my work in wireless telephony, my multiple message inventions, my experiments with music and many another related...