Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wars, in Cuba, in the Philippines; both observed the Russo-Japanese War for the U. S. Government. Everyone knows the fireworks that attended the climax of General Pershing's history. But who knows what Major General Crowder did in his usual working hours between 7:30 a. m. and midnight? Among other things, he was onetime Judge Advocate General (legal head) of the U. S. Army and its ablest lawyer in many a year. He was the chief author of the selective draft law? an achievement as difficult as it was unpopular. In Cuba, he ably unraveled another thankless knot...
...nine years this sturdy, thick-set man with greying hair, who plays golf and tennis as zestfully as he works at physics, delved into the mysteries of atoms, ions, electrons. Often he strode into his laboratory at midnight after dinner or the theatre. For hours, in impeccable evening dress, he tried to measure infinitesimal electrons on oil droplets less than one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, checked his results many a time. At last he isolated the ion, studied its ways and habits. For this he received the Nobel Prize (TIME...
...year's Jubilee will not start until 9 o'clock. Formerly, a light lunch served at 6 o'clock was folowed by chorus singing by the Freshmen dormitory choruses. Dancing was held from 8 o'clock until 2, o'clock, with a short intermission for another light lunch at midnight...
...Brooklyn last week, at midnight, Li Poy, 45, dishwasher, Hip Sing, was stooping over his sink in King's Tea Garden, finishing cleaning the scum from around the rim of the water. Occasionally from the dining-room came the sparkle of white men's women, such as many a wealthy tong leader keeps in his saffron incensed chambers. In and out pattered the waiters. Then a strange Chinaman swung through the door. He fired two shots into Li Poy's bent back. Poy pitched forward and his face sank like a yellow teacup into the brown dishwater...
...Where He leads me I will follow," converting thousands. In South Africa after the Boer War, Negroes and white men quivered and rose in common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During the World War, he worked with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, went through four gas attacks...