Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the U.S., on the same day, some 300 other dogged interviewers were asking the same questions of 3,000 other more or Iess well-informed U.S. citizens. Should the U.S. have daylight-saving time all year round? Should Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin sit down together and talk things over? How is Harry Truman doing his job? Which Republican would you like to see President...
...that he had heard from Mrs. Kadlec, Barry Nathan and the others, George Gallup was ready with another report on what the U.S. people thought about shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages & kings. He announced that 52% thought the U.S. should have daylight time only in summer; a solid 60% thought a Stalin-Truman meeting would be a good idea; 55% approved of military aid to China...
...Eliot Duvey '26, and with the financial aid of the Community Recreation Service. For the past three years, however, it has been completely self-sustaining. It has no stock company, there are only five paid employees, three of whom frequently act in the plays. The other actors, in their daylight hours, follow the more respectable pursuits of the business and household world, emerging at night under the warm magic of the footlights into quite different creatures. During the past eight seasons the Tributary has introduced many spectators to little-known plays of Barrie, O'Neill, Ibsen, Shaw, and even Shakespeare...
...impressionists made a bold effort to start afresh. They went into the fields, where perspective laws barely apply, and painted in broad daylight, with the sun behind them, to shake the tyranny of shadows from their colors. The best results, done in bright contrasting dabs of pigment, shone with a fluid sparkle new to art, but surprisingly enough they still looked like windows on an illusory world. The revolution had just begun...
...Berlin, via Amsterdam, with a passport bought from an American sailor. For six months he managed to send a steady stream of dispatches to the Chronicle before the Germans identified and arrested him. After narrowly escaping execution as a spy, Pyke made a bold daylight escape from a prison camp and returned to Britain...