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...follows: Starting at 2.30 o'clock, the first half of the Vermont game will be staged; immediately following will be the first half of the Coast Guard encounter. In the same order the second halves of the two games will be played, the object being to have as much daylight as possible. Ten minute quarters have been agreed upon for the Vermont game, while the Coast Guard team will be played on an eight minute quarter basis...
...Inventor Machlett's improvement is a success, it may be possible to use neon lamps in homes and offices to replace incandescent bulbs. The brightness of the incandescent filament is usually too intense, requires lamp shades. Neon light is diffused, needs no shading. It more nearly approaches daylight, gives off healthful ultra violet rays...
...period of the year has come to a close. Outside of the Institution of marriage, the machinery of the organized Church, the intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded...
...section of the country effected by this action has been regulating its movements according to Daylight Saving Time since April 27. The one hour of sleep lost on that occasion will be made up for as a result of this adjustment...
...Dizzy Heights." With the deadlock thus total, both parties made irate statements. Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar reported that the Gandhite leaders said to them in substance: "The Viceroy's words afford a further painful insight into government mentality. It is as plain as daylight that from the dizzy heights of Simla [Viceregal Summer Capital in the mountains] India's rulers are unable to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the starving millions living in the plains, whose incessant toil makes government from such a dizzy height at all possible...