Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chose to follow the 40th parallel (New York City) around, he would have 13,855 miles to go. If he picked one of the long summer days of the year, he would have about 17 hours in which to get back to his starting point before-daylight left it. He would have to cover 815 miles an hour, or 13% miles a minute, or nearly 400 yards a second...
Thoughts like this occur not only to aeronauts, engineers, travelers. The current issue of the Scientific Monthly shows that this particular thought, "around the world in a daylight day," occurred to Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend, a U. S. entomologist stationed at Itaquaquecetuba, Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil, during his studies of a muscoid fly called Cephenemyia, the world's fastest aeronaut. Much like a bumblebee in size, color and form, Cephenemyia begins life as a larval parasite in the nasal passages or other head cavities of deer, cattle and other ruminants. To find suitable host animals and catch...
...events in the K. of C. and Millrose A. A. games. Milland and Burns will try their luck against the collection of the world's greatest sprinters. Coach Farrell says of Miller's performance in New York Thursday night against a fair representation of these stars, "There was no daylight to be seen between Miller and Murchison at the finish of the dash at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Murchison is the king of indoor sprinters and to Miller to finish second only to him raises Miller's merit...
Strange prodigies foretold that he was destined to no ordinary way of life. The gargoyles on Memorial Hall were heard to laugh and shriek at midnight, and the ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered...
Within the hall it was 4:00 p.m. Brilliant electric lights gave the effect of daylight; the Continental Congress assembled?Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Henry Lee, et al. Last to stride in among the famed patriots was John Hancock. In stentorian tones he called for order. "In accordance with Colonial custom" the proceedings were carried out and the Declaration of Independence was signed again...