Word: midday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last meeting decided to hold two Tea Dances this fall, one after the Dartmouth game and the other after the Army game. As a convenience to men having women guests at the games, the House dining rooms will be open to visitors both Saturday and Sunday for the midday meal throughout the football season. This is a departure from ordinary House practice but should prove very attractive to those who wish to entertain their guests over the week...
About 9 p. m. the CH-113 settled upon the glacier above the village of Ober Gurgl in the Austrian Tyrol. There the scientists rested until morning beside their deflated balloon, calmly working on their notes, securing precious instruments. A searching party met them toward midday, led them to safety and the world's news spotlight...
...mercury. The mercury vapor diffuses between the electrodes and permits the current to jump across as a brilliant mercury arc. The combined light of arc, electrodes and filament appears much whiter than Mazda "daylight" bulbs. It produces 40 times as much humanly beneficial ultraviolet radiation as does the midday midsummer sun of equal intensity...