Word: lamplight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Room on March 3, 1877.* And five other U.S. Presidents have taken their oaths outside the Capitol grounds: John Tyler and Andrew Johnson at Washington hotels, Chester A. Arthur at his Manhattan home, Theodore Roosevelt at the home of a Buffalo friend, and Calvin Coolidge by lamplight in his father's Vermont farmhouse...
Squatting on mats, the villagers watched, chanted, beat out rhythms on packing boxes, joined the stylized, immemorial South Sea steps. The tempo rose to crescendo. Then beyond the fringe of lamplight sounded whistles of applause. But these were native whistlers, not American gate-crashers. For U.S. troops the villages of British Tarawa are out of bounds...
...painting the cave surface was prepared by scraping; then the figure was scratched in. By flickering lamplight the painters then went to work with three colors - black, red and yellow oxides of iron and manganese. Insoluble in water, the pigments were mixed with grease. Grouped figures are seldom compositions; they merely represent use of all possible wall space...