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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m.. CBS). Jack Benny in The Horn Blows at Midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...vertical composition called Stage Fright - the terror an actor feels on looking out at row on row of tensely waiting faces in the audience. To achieve the effect of tenseness, Artist Hoff made her faces green, set against a background of red plush seats and surrounded by an ominous. midnight-blue black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ladies' Day | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

There is no doubt that St. James' was a clever scheme. The path he plied across the straits and through the narrow streets of Karik brought him a life of double marriage and pleasure. Maud in Gibraltar (pipe, slippers, and dumplings), Nita in Karik (wine, dancing, and midnight swims). He was, as one of his crew noted, a genius. But he was also, and this, too, is duly noted, a saint. If things ended badly, it was not his fault in trying to take too much, but in wanting too little. He wanted only a single full life, and when...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Captain's Paradise | 11/28/1953 | See Source »

...M.I.T. that Schwinger developed his owlish habits. The noise and bustle of the Radiation Laboratory was so intense during the day, that he preferred to work at night. He often worked from midnight to dawn--"there were fewer people around then, just the scrub women...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: Far From the Madding Crowd | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

Even with undergraduate cooperation, however, the Y.A.A ticket office frequently works as late as midnight to finish its job. Thanks to these long hours, it is always able to fill the ticket orders by the Sunday evening before the game...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/17/1953 | See Source »

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