Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with Professor Dobie that the coyote is one of the most interesting of animals. He is a natural as a "story-maker." A friend of mine in Colorado saw a coyote trot boldly into his farmyard in broad daylight, whereupon his big collie gave chase, was ambushed by two accomplices of the decoy, and killed by the three of them within 200 yards of the house...
...Class of 1949 has already announced that after the daylight ceremonies at which the Class Poet, Oratory, Ivy Orator, Odist, and Chorister offer their talents, a "Class Night" in Memorial Hall will be staged. This activity will be "something like a Freshman smoker," Class officials say, with free beer and entertainment by the Class. But any informal gathering of seniors on Class Day, especially with the accompaniment of a beverage, will undoubtedly have more of a kinship to was sails of the past than to a Freshman smoker. It remains to be seen, of course, whether or not this projected...
...Travelers in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal could count on a baffling summer. The New York Central R.R. will continue to operate on Standard time, while the New York, New Haven & Hartford this week will switch over to Daylight Saving. Sixty-three clocks in Grand Central are being refitted with two hour hands: a black one for Standard, a red one for Daylight...
...daylight saving time had begun one day earlier, Harvard might have won its golf match with MIT Saturday. As it was, darkness closed in at 6:50 p.m. before three tied games could be played off, and the match ended in a 3 1/2 to 3 1/2 deadlock...
Clocks are to be set ahead one hour tonight in celebration of the annual Going - on - Eastern - Daylight - Saving - Time - Day. The appointed hour for the change is 2 a.m. But Radcliffe just to be different, and to save its students probationary embarrassment, will make the shift at 6 a.m. instead...