Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision to restore the painting was . . . greatly influenced when, during the war years, the great painting had to be unrolled in the daylight and, startlingly, in the merciless sunlight, the muddy-looking, pseudo-mystic brown-black crepe suddenly appeared to be shadow...
Last week, in full daylight. Captain Sonei got justice from a Dutch firing squad. His appeal to acting Governor General Hubertus J. van Mook had been rejected. Mrs. van Mook had been one of Sonei's prisoners...
Three hundred years did the rest. Daylight turned to yellow torchlight or faded out altogether. Some of Captain Cocq's men vanished into the night. Visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum praised the painting to the skies for its golden glow, its mysterious, impenetrable shadows. Reportedly it was Sir Joshua Reynolds who dubbed it "Night Watch," and the name stuck...
...usual miscellany of mid-week practice pass defense, defense against Crusader plays, pass offense, a signal drill, plus a scrimmage which pitted the "A" eleven against a Jayvee squad--was on the daily menu, and the shortening hours of daylight will make that schedule a more difficult program to squeeze in with every passing...
...With being "sent down" as the possible penalty, the hero's prank is performed in broad daylight before an admiring student crowd. In reality, when playful Oxonians have felt an urge to embellish the Martyrs' Memorial, the chamber pot has been applied in darkness, in stealth and with cement...