Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor pains roved through her. She cried for help. No one came. She tried to hold the baby back at least until daylight. But there could be no waiting. Mrs. Toner got out of bed and like solitary females of primitive times, bore her baby, an 8-lb. girl, without any assistance...
Traveling in daylight and darkness he reached high, lonely Rongbuk Monastery in mid-April, beating by more than a week the time of the elaborate Ruttledge expedition. He rested one day, made a reconnaissance to Ruttledge's Camp No. 2, and returned to the monastery to gather strength for his supreme effort. The long-sleeved, yellow-hatted monks padding about in their cloth boots asked him no questions. Wilson drank their rancid butter-tea, watched the smoke of incense curling from bronze burners, rested. On May 17 he was at Camp No. 3 with his porters. He instructed them...
First recorded super-nova was observed in the Milky Way in 1572. It was visible in full daylight. Another appeared in Andromeda in 1885. Since 1900 about a dozen have been found by chance on photographic plates, mostly in the Virgo cluster of nebulae. Drs. Baade & Zwicky estimate that each galaxy has one super-nova every thousand years. The average nebula contains a billion stars. If one star committed suicide in the super-nova manner every thousand years, the nebula would be exhausted in one trillion years?which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum...
...shore of Karmö Island Pilot Jacobsen's family stood expectantly in line waiting for papa to bring the Dresden past. That he did, so close that his children could see him waving to them from the bridge beside Captain Peter Moeller in the 9 p.m. daylight...
...that in New York wrestling bouts are "exhibitions" not "contests." The crowd (35,000) was the biggest at a wrestling match since the one which saw Frank Gotch defeat George Hacken-schmidt in 1911 in a bout which appeared so fraudulent that no professional wrestling has been conducted in daylight since...