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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge police today start a search for some 8 to 12 Square rioters--many of them undergraduates--whose midnight fracas last night resulted in the arrest of one 23-year old College Junior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Hunted In Square Fracas | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

Anthony G. Scott '50, Pollano's room-mate in Adams F-21 explained last night that he had never known Pollano to take pills of any sort. The night before his death, Pollano had been studying past midnight and apparently had taken the tablets while worried about exams and depressed by his failure to be accepted at a medical school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Analysis Proves Pollano Committed Suicide with Pills | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

...Inaugural Ball he lin gered far past midnight, watching from his box as all official Washington danced on the floor below or crowded up for a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I Have the Job | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Nothing serious, just blowing off a little steam after studying for exams," was Chief Alvin R. Randall's comment last night about the brawl between "townies" and freshmen which developed from a friendly snowfall Friday night. The skirmish brought the Yard's midnight constabulary and several proctors out into the Yard to break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nocturnal Brawl In Snow Shatters Stillness of Yard | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

When Rudolph came into the world, in 1858, his father promptly made him a colonel of Hungarian Light Infantry, and before he was six years old, put him in the care of a senior army officer. Sickly, timid Colonel Rudolph was toughened by being awakened at midnight with a fusillade of revolver shots; then he would be dragged outdoors in early morning and put through a drill. When he seemed to be growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tailor's Death | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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