Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prisoners, Therefore at 11 p. m. that evening the Chancellor laid before the President for his signature the most repugnant decree. Effective at midnight, it opened the jails and prison camps of Austria, releasing everyone confined for a political offense. There have been few political crimes in history more revolting than that of certain Austrian Nazis who, in 1934, disguised in Austrian uniforms, invaded the Chancellery in Vienna and shot in cold blood Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who lay groaning before he died (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). To Schuschnigg and Miklas, the decree was immoral in every sense of the word...
Meantime, Eastern's Manager Eddie Rickenbacker plus a dozen other expert navigators sweated over charts and signals from Pilot Jones in a hopeless effort to locate the wandering plane. At midnight, radio stations, led by WOR, began asking listeners to "step outside and see if you can hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from...
...Charlie Donkin (Frederick Leister) is a housemaster at an English boarding school, adored by the boys for his crusty wisdom. Suddenly three frolicsome girls with their aunt come to live with him, turn everything arsy-versy. The high jinks soar highest when the three little minxes throw a midnight spread in their bedroom and ask a few of the boys to drop in. Right in the midst of their lark who should appear but old Donkin himself, mad as a hornet...
Three minutes past the midnight when his term as New Jersey's Governor ended, Harold G. Hoffman stepped from his office, shouted at an astonished janitor: "I want those overhead lights out as soon as possible. I am a taxpayer...
...same place. By that time the physics department at Washington University was so excited that Jauncey was offered the run of the laboratory and all the help he wanted. He stayed in the laboratory on Christmas Eve instead of going home to his family. One hour before midnight he developed his first film. It showed, as he suspected, that electrons had struck it at different places. The distance between the impacts showed that the mass of some electrons was 2.4 times greater than...