Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system of bounds that is enforced at Oxford and Cambridge, the rule that compels every undergraduate to be within his college precincts by midnight, that allows him only one week-end leave each term, is repugnant to our independence. But if the accidents and casualties continue to increase we may have to accept it. Both of the prohibitions cited in the first paragraph were occasioned by specific disasters. We cannot afford to grant intellectual privileges to machines that hurt. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...reported that shortly before each of the bombs burst, witnesses had noticed a Ford sedan streaking down midnight streets and highways. Methodical detectives buckled down to the task of checking every Ford in North Germany. In Itzehoe, Prussia, a suspicious Ford was discovered last week...
...Washington traffic court last week because his automobile had been in collision. He pointed to the other collisionist, one Oliver H. Austin, and said, "That is the man." Result: $200 fine for Autoist Austin for hit-&-running. Police in Phoenix City, Ala. observed an automobile behaving peculiarly at midnight, suspected autointoxication, arrested the occupants, found allegedly three bottles of home brew. One B. M. Haines was charged with driving while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas Heflin, junior-junior, that is, to the senior Senator from Alabama. Junior Heflin was also lodged in jail, charged with drunkenness, with violating...
...climax to his tattling Chancellor Snowden described with tolerant superiority the last few hours of midnight bargaining before he won his extra share in the German Reparations "sponge cake" for Great Britain...
...Then someone had a brain wave. The hitherto undiscovered means of giving us the sum we needed was discovered. At midnight our demands were accepted and the conference saved...