Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sailors from the ships Bowdoin and Peary occupied a few of their many consecutive hours of daylight with a hunting trip, were attacked by "an infuriated herd of at least 100 walrus," escaped without injury...
...many weeks haggard M.P.'s have been hearing about it and invariably going out by the same door wherein they went. "It" was the Summer Time (daylight saving) Bill which, if passed by the Lords, will now make it permanently legal for the clock to be put ahead by one hour on the third Sunday in April and moved back on the first Sunday in October...
After describing the plans and the action of the battle, Captain Frothingham comes to the conclusion that the superior British Fleet failed to defeat the inferior German Fleet because of the limitation of the action to daylight fighting, the breakdown of inter-squadron communications, the "preconceived caution in closing a withdrawing enemy." Hence, Admiral Jellicoe, who has borne the brunt of the responsibility for the "British tragedy," is proved to be blackened with guilt but not nearly so black as he has been painted...
Another factor in MacMillan's favor this trip will be the weather. He made his last try for Crocker Land at the beginning of an Arctic winter. With 24 hours of daylight to work in, he expects to accomplish in a few days what it used to take months...
Equipment. Daylight is unfavorable to wireless communication, but the MacMillian planes will be equipped with sets for transmitting 20-, 40-, 80-and 180-metre wave lengths. It is believed that the shorter wave lengths will pierce the hitherto impenetrable belt of static between the latitudes of 55° and 75°. The Radio Broadcasters' League hopes to be able to transmit a running account of the expedition's adventures by stepping up its messages at a Chicago station. Eskimo folk songs are also part of the tentative program...