Word: lamplights
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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...
...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...