Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with the red herrings a little brightly colored. Two characters stand out with pleasant eccentricity: old Mr. Hubbleby, who spends the daylight hours of his vacation riding to and from London on express trains, sleeping at home every night; Pithecanthropus Smith, who is no believer in Sherlock Holmes. Says he: "Detectives frequently have to ask questions which seem impertinent at first, and prove irrelevant at last...
Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...
...neat a trick as daylight saving was announced last fortnight by smart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha whose beetling brows and piercing eyes suggest the wisdom of a Mephisto...
...fall on what is now the third, the second on the fourth, the third on the fifth, and so on. This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like to be worshipped on Jehovah's day. Until popular feeling on this Godly point can be gauged, Mephisto Kemal will...
...game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might choose to accomplish thirty minutes of daylight saving before next autumn...