Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properly objective by the artist. In his stories about stalking his game, often in a punt with a large shotgun fixed onto the bow, and often shooting by moonlight, Wildfowler Scott will puzzle gunners in the U. S. where such practices are barred and only his "shoulder gun," in daylight, is legal. But U. S. readers will not long question the rightful membership of Peter Scott in best shooting circles when they read: "There is a peculiar aura that surrounds in my mind anything and every thing to do with wild geese...
...that the place was full of men whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight each mind was a sort of aquarium for the psychopath to study. . . . But by night each man was back in his doomed sector of a horror-stricken Front Line where the panic and stampede of some ghastly experience was re-enacted among the livid faces of the dead...
...noon sharp, Eastern Daylight Saving Time, the figures flashed to the waiting cotton world. It was the Government's guess, the best to be had, that this season's crop in the biggest cotton land in the world would be 12,481,000 bales of about 500 Ib. each.* Last year the crop was 10,638,000 bales. The estimate was a little higher than expected, although Clinton T. Revere, famed cotton expert for the Manhattan firm of Munds, Winslow & Potter, scored a bull's-eye with a private estimate of 12,498,000 bales, only...
Gnawing the daylight in a purple fever. If my mistress is different than...
...mount. The New York Times's weekly index, which does make allowance for longtime upward trends, has been above 100 for several weeks. Power production last week was the highest on record, exceeding even the previous high set last December when nights were long and there was no daylight saving. U. S. railroads last week loaded 690,716 freight cars, 21% more than in the same week of last year. Steel mills were operating at 74% of capacity, and even U. S. Steel Corp. was expected to show appreciable earnings for its common stock in the June quarter. Automobile...