Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long line of men who have tried, like Joshua, to stop the sun while work was toward, last week was added Franklin Roosevelt.* The President asked Congress to pass a bill authorizing him to establish year-round, nationwide Daylight Saving Time...
...President called for daylight saving as a national defense measure. A mighty man is Franklin Roosevelt, with many powers unknown to Joshua, but last week he bumped spang up against something Joshua didn't have to contend with: the psyche...
...flow of milk necessary for national defense. Cows do indeed take a few days to get used to such a change, but their discomfort is nowhere nearly so great or so enduring as that of farmers. In wintertime dairy farmers already rise while it is dark, and under daylight saving they will have to rise and begin their work still earlier, in the coldest part of the night...
...Malemi in Crete, where he was stationed, "we were rarely in a position to put more than two aircraft into the air for a continuous patrol during daylight hours." The anti-aircraft guns protecting the airport were without protection themselves, were quickly put out of action by Stukas...
...daylight too, when first the West End was bombed, the East End swarmed over round-eyed and unmalicious, "forgetting its own scenes of horror in the rapture of the new . . . and goes back, to sit down in the windowless, doorless shells of its homes and tells its less adventurous neighbors that they 'aven't arf made a mess of Bond Street...