Word: dimouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Tomorrow night's program is a reproduction of the one that worked so well in 41, except for the torches that went out with the dimout. The band will assemble in the Yard at 7:30 o'clock and wind through the Houses, arriving in front of the Varsity Club at about 7:35 o'clock...
...Manhattan, nightspots and boob-traps are roaring despite some 400,000 unemployed New Yorkers and a citywide dimout which has made Broadway the Great Dark Way. On the East Side zebra-striped El Morocco is open this summer for the first time in its ten-year history, and officers' caps are stacked six deep in the checkroom. At the Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty...
...moon reached its full eclipse, appearing as a dull copper ball, at 11:01 o'clock and remained unchanged until 12:35 when the earth's shadow began to recede. Since the dimout regulations removed most of the glare from the skies and only scattered clouds appeared, the course of the phenomenon was clearly visible in all its stages...