Word: dimouts
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...
Instituting a unique system for enforcing dimout regulations, the Adams House War Service Committee, sponsor of the plan, has initiated a policy which will place responsibility for adequate dimming in the House rooms on the Adams' A. R. P. organization. Under the present setup, most of the Houses have been depending on their janitors for maintaining the dimout...
...keep the regulations before students at all times dimout notices familiar to all bulletin board readers from the office of Aldrich Durant, have been pasted in each room...