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Word: daylight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...builders of Connecticut's first auto tunnel have thought of everything. They have wired 300-watt bulbs to the roof, and spaced them closer near the entrance, so motorists eyes can adjust slowly from the daylight...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Snarled New Haven Detour Vanishes As Connecticut Opens Rock Tunnel | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson from practicing in the Stadium. Usually the visiting team occupies the Stadium from 3 to 4 p.m. on Fridays and the varsity moves in a few minutes later. But Army won't get going until shortly after 3:30 p.m., and Art Valpey would rather use the precious daylight minutes working in the fenced in practice enclosure than waiting for the Black Knights to finish in the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Eleven Arrives in Hub Today | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

Before the Grail is restored to its keeper, the Prester John of early Christian lore, the reader sees murder done and a black mass sung, right in broad British daylight. In short, he enters the other world of Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8 et seq.), the English religious mystic who toward the end of his life (1945) set on paper a series of modern visions which he called novels (All Hallows' Eve, Descent into Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Grail | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...daylight came, the lonely cluster of buildings on the edge of the great dry valley hummed with nervous tension. This rocket, the Viking II, had misfired two weeks before, and a rocket that has once misfired makes everyone a little nervous. Sometimes rockets "walk" (i.e., move sidewise) on firing; sometimes they explode prematurely. On such occasions the control blockhouse, which looks like a concrete igloo, is a good place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X Marks the Minute | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...deal with them is to kill them before they get their wings. Last week Dutton's fighters were spreading poisoned bait by airplane over as many square miles as possible in the outbreak areas. Every day 53 pilots were flying 35 airplanes in relays, as long as daylight lasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War in the West | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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