Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barcelona, which had already gone on daylight saving time, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin shoved clocks ahead yet another hour last week, to save still more electricity. Tap water usually ran in the capital for only a few hours each day. Food shops were on short rations, gone altogether the displays of wines, cold meats, biscuits and pastries of a few weeks ago. In Barcelona last week 28 Rightist suspects were executed by Leftist firing squads, and the worst Rightist air raids in six weeks had killed 30, wounded 50 at latest dispatches...
Nationally mild spring evenings were made longer as many millions of citizens throughout the U. S. last week set their watches ahead, lost one hour of sleep with the advent of Daylight Saving Time. Principal nonconformist was John D. Rockefeller Jr., who, like the New York Central, does not believe in D. S. T. Last week Mr. Rockefeller's secretaries, as they must each spring, began carrying two watches to keep in time with their boss and with the world...
...sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others who had tried to swim it, four of whom were wounded, drowned. . . . We listened to their story of their break-through after the battalion had been surrounded...
...which the prestige of the white man in the Orient was still sufficient at Nanking during the worst days for a judicious word, a stern remonstrance or a gentle but firm use of physical strength to do much. More than one Japanese soldier, raping a Chinese woman in broad daylight in the streets of Nanking, was chased off by a white...
Abandoning intercollegiate competition for a mid-week pick-up game, the Crimson Postoffice team last night romped over the Katie Gibbs kissers in a colorful match that was called at four o'clock this morning owing to daylight. "We gambolled and lost," Miss Lydia Lipps, RFD, told the CRIMSON later...