Word: lamplight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurricane had blown his garage away, and with it the aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial, by 7 p. m. had his transmitter working on five watts of dry-cell power. He sat down by kerosene lamplight, began calling the amateur's land signal of distress, QRR. Soon W2CQD at Roselle, N. J., 165 miles away, picked him up, turned him over to nearer WiSZ at West Hartford, Conn...
...spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies, sweating in the lamplight. Up from the mine they suddenly sent an ultimatum: either the owners raise their pay to $3.50 a week or they would have one good dinner on the ponies and then smash the ventilators. Death by suffocation they preferred to death by slow starvation. The owners replied: "Come out first; argue...
...electricity be installed. Nor would he permit the ceiling to be repainted; candle and lamp smoke had given it such a fine patina. In later years "Copey" found it difficult to get the right sort of lamp chimneys, but he never gave in, and it was always by lamplight that he said, punctually at 11 p. m.: "Good night, good night, please come again...
...stocky, florid criminal lawyer, got a chance to make good his promise when the citizens of Seattle chose him for Mayor over Robert H. Harlin, incumbent, by a record-breaking majority vote. Born & bred in Massachusetts, Mayor-elect Dore went West 20 years ago, learned his law by lamplight while reporting police news for Seattle newspapers. Clever, sarcastic, affable, he has made a reputation as one of the smartest defense attorneys in the Northwest. Married, father of three daughters and a son, he gave up drinking and smoking several years ago because of his health. To him in his campaign...
...From my study I see in the lamplight...