Word: dimout
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia heaved a sigh and said: "I'm glad it's over. Now we can read the funnies." For three days a delivery strike had imposed a news dimout on the biggest newspaper town in the nation, completely shutting off distribution of all Greater New York's leading dailies...
...Dimout begins tonight at 5:43 o'clock...
...Kansas City, Mrs. Roy Jordan stepped outside and transferred to her refrigerator a covey of 15 quail who had broken their necks trying to fly through the closed kitchen window. In Hollywood, Actress Jeff Donnell introduced the seeing-eye owl-a pressagent's idea of an efficient dimout guide for people in no particular hurry...
Store windows around the Square will once more be ablaze with light as some of the provisions in the rigid dimout regulation have been relaxed. The change was announced to Cambridge storekeepers in a letter from wardens Walter L. Cronin and David J. O'Connor...
Although Boylston Hall casts an exemplary evening shadow over its corner of the Yard, College Library officials are not trying to set an example for the University's dimout. Yet this would be a far better reason for closing the traditional home of Freshman History, Government and Economics studying than any they have to offer. Boylston Reading Room was closed when its head librarian got drafted at the beginning of the second session of Summer School. Now, rather than search too vigorously for a substitute, library officials are limping along on a make-shift summer arrangement that is unable...