Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separated from Palestine by 200 miles of British-mandated Trans- Jordan, British officers foresaw that friendly Bedouins would soon be leading Iraq raiders across the desert into Palestine. Meanwhile, in Palestine itself, twelve Arab terrorists replenished their none-too-full coffers by a new type of coup. In a daylight robbery of a branch Barclays Bank at Nablus, they obtained...
...agin-the-government tang. But General Foods President Colby M. Chester is stanchly anti-New Deal. Last week, when it was announced that Boake Carter would say his last General Foods cheerio August 26, the rumors grew louder. Official reason for failure to renew the contract: The change from Daylight Saving Time would bring the broadcasts to western radios at 4:30 p. m., too early an hour for most listeners, and better time is not available on any nationwide network...
State should be administered by the British under a revised mandate." Meanwhile, zealous Jews and Arabs continued for the sixth successive week their murder-bent activities. In cities, although British troops stood guard at virtually every street corner, bombs were hurled and snipers picked off their victims in broad daylight. The total toll of the terrorism during previous weeks: Arabs, 155 killed, 278 injured; Jews, 72 killed, 217 injured...
...time's nick, as the last ray of daylight began to fade, Golfer Ferebee limped up to the final green, sank his putt for a 5 and a last-round 89. He had taken 687 strokes (90, 82, 82, 82, 87, 87, 88, 89) for the 144 holes, had covered each of Olympia's four courses twice (a tee-to-green distance of 29 miles) in 13 hr. 32 min. "Well, anyway, my golf's got volume, if not quality," panted Ferebee, as he peeled off $100 to pay the ten caddies he had used...
...tears. For half the sufferers, the 15th of August, when ragweed fever begins, is their last sneezeless day till frost. Why the disease always strikes on August 15 is no nasal mystery, but merely another indication of Nature's regularity. As August 15 approaches, the shortening of daylight hours allows the ragweed plant precisely enough sunlight to ripen it on that day. And the number of hours of daylight and darkness for a given date is the same from year to year...