Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murders & Lynching. Meanwhile at Harbin, chief city of northern Manchukuo, four Chinese kidnappers pounced in broad daylight on the three children of C. T. Woodruff, chief accountant for British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd. in Harbin...
When they reached the north shore of Banks Island, it was still summer, with eight hours of daylight. Said Nap Verville last week: "There's grass there and flowers that look like little daisies, some yellow and some white. There are willows there, too. I don't suppose that is their real name, but I call them underground willows. They only grow about an inch high and then turn back under ground and run along for several feet and come up again...
...Chinese soldiers refused to help them, saying 'What's the use of dragging them out? There are no doctors here and they will bleed to death anyway.' I then started to rescue some of the victims myself. Only when daylight came did we feel safe from another attack...
...about the occasional attention he must give to his instruments. He wanted to be at one of the nine window ports, watching the earth drop away, watching the heavens em brace him. ... He found time to jot eloquent notes of what he saw. Excerpts:* "5:34 a. m. Brilliant daylight floods all about us. My young friend Cosyns begins his experiments in connection with the cosmic rays. What are we to discover? We wonder...
...style "Bull" Durham ads appeared on a Minnesota highway just across a pasture fence in which pasture a Swede farmer pastured his Holstein herd of fine dairy cows. Soon the farmer found a decline in his milk supply, later it was discovered that his cows spent their daylight hours gazing passionately across the fence at the handsome hero. Forthwith the farmer entered suit against the local advertising agency for damages...