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...Registrar also said that drivers should slow down on Halloween to protect children who may be darting about in dark costumes during dusk or early darkness, especially in residential areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drivers Warned To Control Speed At Dawn, Dusk | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

Since the peak number of accidents occur during hours of dusk and darkness, the following suggestions are offered in order to avoid collisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drivers Warned To Control Speed At Dawn, Dusk | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

Rush hour cars move by the river toward the Mass Pike; in Harvard Stadium field lights go on to repel the dusk. On the field, the Crimson varsity continues to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Running Back Neal Miller: A Stocky Stoic Who Does the Job | 10/31/1973 | See Source »

...nasty, brutish and short," he says. "Judging from all the clues we have found, man led the good life in the Illinois River valley. He had plenty of leisure time in which to domesticate pets. It's sheer folklore that primitive people had to struggle from dawn to dusk simply to survive." In short, the early Americans of the Illinois River valley, like their modern counterparts, enjoyed a relatively peaceful life and a highly enviable standard of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cache in the Cornfield | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...Moslems as well as Jews, the war had religious overtones. It came during Ramadan, the holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting when, it is said, warriors who die in a jihad go immediately to heaven. In Cairo, Moslem scholars formally declared the fight a holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The War of the Day of Judgment | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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