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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Similarly, when Professor Buck announced the extension of Lamont hours to midnight, just one week after the Council had voted not to ask for extension except during reading period, many students chalked up one more boner for their Council. The organization dedicated to representing student opinion appeared less enterprising than the librarian in desiring to meet student demands. Though the Council's decision not to pressure for longer hours had resulted from careful consideration of previous year's figures, it hardly showed initiative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Council | 1/13/1956 | See Source »

...quite safe at night. The University police contend that closed gates deter thieves from raiding the nearby entries of Wigglesworth by restricting their routes of escape. In the long run to the Holyoke Street, exit, alert proctors would have time to make the tackle. Yet with Lamont open until midnight, homeward-bound students would keep the archway patrolled, forcing burglars to postpone their raids until later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing Late, Sweet Gates | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

Last winter the University police advanced the gate-shutting hour from 8 until 10 p.m., the former closing time of the libraries. Now that Lamont operates until 12, the gates should stay open until midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing Late, Sweet Gates | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

Starting his route at midnight, Dave gets back home when most people are leaving for work. After six hours' sleep, he puts on track clothes and spends two hours running at Olympic Park. Weekends, before Dave became a seven-day-a-week milkman, the Stephenses would relax, sleep late (6 a.m.), go through only a light routine of study and running. Saturday nights they "lashed out" with a little dissipation: a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Aussie on the Run | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...Midnight Mass (Sat. midnight, NBC). From St. Patrick's Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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