Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Most of the 1,000,000 yearly U. S. automobile accidents occur to experienced male adult drivers (over 25 ) going straight in passenger cars in good condition on dry roads in clear daylight, and many are the variations of Arkansas's prophetic Grim Reaper that other States have concocted. They range from Oklahoma City's American Legion campaign this spring (ghosts of 85 dead paraded through the streets), to Ohio's now abandoned white graveyard crosses that marked the scenes of highway fatalities. But accidents increase and States, insurance and tire companies have about given up trying...
...field party will study various kinds of rocks in the vicinity of Malden, starting at 1:35 at Faulkner station in Malden, on the Saugus Branch of the Boston and Maine. The station can be reached from Boston by a train leaving North Station at 1:17 o'clock, daylight saving time...