Word: midday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This restriction has approximately two supports. First, Houses nearest the Yard and afraid of becoming refueling stations for great hordes on their way from classes to labs. Second, permission of inter-House during midday would decrease House spirit, since there would be no need to eat any substantial meals in home quarters...
...less successfully masquerading as an A-with-a-Cause, has certain virtues: though four-fifths of the footage consist of phosphorescent Christmas card night scenes produced through a new use of infrared film, the rest of it-a porridge-colored dawn landing of the immigrants and the bright dusty midday scenes around a desert village-is visually exciting...
...Heeding Noel Coward's famed advice: "In Bangkok at 12 o'clock...only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...days, guided by Indians, they pushed into the jungle. In some places the growth was so thick "that without a watch you would mistake midday for daybreak or sunset." Some days, cutting a trail with machetes, the party progressed as little as two miles. Boggy ground made walking hazardous. Food grew scarce, and dysentery developed. Once a 20-foot python knocked down a soldier. Men who fell ill returned to Moyobamba...
...dockers, ignoring Attlee's speech and the vote, continued the strike. On Tower Hill, midday crowds gathered in the sun to hear soapbox speakers supporting labor solidarity and the strike. One of them popped out his National Health Service Acts false teeth, held them aloft triumphantly, cried gummily: "I'd never have had a tooth in me head if your fathers and my fathers hadn't stuck tergeth-er in the past for their rights. Solidarity, that's wot did it, and it'll do it again...