Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship from New York landed with only its searchlights to feel the way. Two others went to Milwaukee. Still others approached the area slowly, awaiting a lights-on signal. Then one of these, from Fort Worth, with 15 passengers, prepared to descend. The great field was outlined feebly with lantern light. Down came the ship, its searchlights poking through the black, when suddenly the field lights blazed on and a frantic hour was over. Next day Chicago's City Council decreed immediate installation of an emergency power plant for Chicago Airport...
...animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp's recreational director, the oily friendliness of the proprietor, the wreckage caused by a thunderstorm on the night of a Japanese lantern fiesta, the iron insistence with which a tipsy party marches up and down singing "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Off to Work...
...building is 188 feet long, 66 feet wide, and 40 feet in wall height. The exterior will be finished with brick, and the roof will be covered with red slates taken from the old Hemenway and will be surmounted by a lantern carrying the weathervane of the former building...
...appear with a slightly brownish hue, and peristaltic [movement] waves can be noted. ... A small liver with a wrinkled surface and hobnailed irregularities would suggest cirrhosis. Adhesions . . . may be spider web, lacelike, or massive bands. ... When the stomach wall is transilluminated, the stomach appears to observers like a Chinese lantern...
...year-old brother, James, and his 16-year-old sister write too). He can only record how many poems he wrote, not how he wrote them or where they came from. But they have been coming for a long while. As a kid he went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Burns, read poetry by lantern light until the dog's barking signaled a treed coon...