Word: daylighting
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...diplomatic crisis increasingly grave was that Japan's running fire of apologies were accompanied by a running fire of reports from survivors of the Panay. These made it apparent that not only had the Panay been boarded and identified by the Japanese, but bombed in broad daylight, machine-gunned by four planes, after the bombing, and finally machine-gunned by two Japanese motor boats as she was sinking...
Slowly making her way through dark, unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited...
...accelerator of a modern high-powered car is aware, to get everything possible out of one's vehicle in the way of speed, and, within limits, this does not seem to be bad. Police regulations to the contrary, the difference between fifty and sixty on the open road in daylight cannot be regarded as serious, and when students are picked up for clocking sixty under circumstances that clearly warrant a fast clip, it is only the respect for the law that suffers...
Most of the 1,000.000 yearly U. S. automobile accidents occur to experienced male drivers (over 25) going straight in passenger cars in good condition on dry roads in dear daylight. The National Safety Council in Accident Facts (1937 edition) says that two-thirds of the automobile deaths by accident occur by night; listen...
After midday one cannot read without strain in either the east wing or the center hall of the room. The daylight is too weak and electric lights are ineffective. In the early morning and late afternoon the same weak light is noticeable in the west wing...