Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When does daylight saving time end in Philadelphia?" (Answer: Sunday, Sept...
...line of cars hurtled down a six-lane highway in bright daylight. Suddenly, a shift in the wind whipped smoke from a burning garbage dump across the highway, forcing one driver to slow down. In a moment, the line became a screeching, telescoping, side-swiping shambles; 25 ears were wrecked or damaged; 13 people were injured, seven hospitalized. But, except for the number of cars involved, it was routine. Nobody had been killed...
White & Black Threads. Last week, for Jerusalem's Moslems, it was Ramadan, the Mohammedan month of fasting: for which the Koran commands the Faithful: "Eat and drink until ye can discern a white thread from a black by the daylight, and then fast strictly till night...
During the daylight hours of fast, less pious Moslems still sold dripping sheep carcasses, eggs, fruit and vegetables in the stewing narrow streets of the Old City. Arab merchants, sitting cross-legged on bolts of cloth, still tried to entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots...
...second heat it was the same story. Romeyn Taylor '49 of Leverett House pulled to an early lead and put a lot of rainy daylight between himself and Allen Grant, Jr. '45, of Kirkland House; but the curving Boston shore tricked Taylor, almost causing him to run aground...