Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian...
...every bit of research every signing of contract with coaches every advanced secret practice, every current of the Pigskin melon, be performed is electric light. Too much daylight not good for the game for business football...
...much daylight isn't good for the game--or business--of football...
...must at last seek refreshment and reincarnation in the world of a Jesus, a Plato, a Shakespere and a Dante, a world which Bertrand Russell describes as just beyond the cavern of despair where Self must die, out "where the Gate of Renunciation leads again to the daylight of wisdom by whose radiance a new insight, a new joy; a new tenderness, shine forth to gladden the pilgrim's heart." Then, and then alone, when man has learned to control his inner life, can he stand forth, free of his fear, a fortified Frankenstein...
There was a sudden sputtering on the ground near the plane; combusting chemicals burst into a furious glare illuminating that desolate place with the radiance of an unearthly daylight, and revealing to the campers a scene unique, electrifying, sculptural...