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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith grabbed a phone and called Prime Minister Malan. It was midnight, and the Prime Minister was in bed and asleep. He stumbled to the telephone in his pajamas and heard the excited ichthyologist pleading for an airplane to take him to the fish. Malan acted quickly. Next morning a Dakota (DC-3) of the South African air force took off for the Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: African Ancestor | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...Athletic Association deep in the red each year, and expeditiously sought a study hall for freshmen who felt discriminated against because they, unlike upperclassmen, had no studying facilities after Lamont closed. Buck found them a hall in Memorial Church. And, like the House libraries, it will be open until midnight...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Provost Buck: Consistent Freedom | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...sinners." In the Seoul area, the cardinal visited hospitals and various nearby units, faithfully taking the names of all the soldiers he talked to. (Last year he sent letters to the relatives of 6,000 after he returned to the U.S.) On Christmas Eve, he said midnight Mass at I Corps chapel, the next day flew up to the front, where he spoke to 2,500 marines in the ist Division's amphitheater, his stole, cassock and surplice fitting snugly over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Visits to Korea | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Similarly, women will be banned during the freshman hours. These hours will be from 9:30 to midnight Monday through Friday, from 7 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, and on Sundays from 2 to 5:30 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m. until midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Study Banned In Church Basement | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...opening of a study hall in Lamont was a compromise move after a freshman committee requested leaving Lamont open until midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Study Banned In Church Basement | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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