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With the drab decorum of Mem Hall covered by sprightly trappings, and the moonlight oozing in at the open windows, '47 will have its night to howl. Accompanying the howling will be George Auld's band in its second showing at Harvard, having played in the Union...
...Moonlight and Warmer " The official weather report said : "Moonlight and warmer." Was the U.S. Weather Bureau - after 75 years of cautious clichés - suffering a sudden May-madness? Dispatched to find out, Washington reporters met slight, affable Donald C. Cameron, 39, new chief forecaster for the Southeastern U.S. No whimsical amateur, but a Bureau veteran of 22 years, Weatherman Cameron knew exactly what he was about. He explained:"My idea is to humanize the forecasts. . . . People don't give a damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They...
...night by moonlight about 1,000 R.A.F. heavies bombing Nuremberg were challenged by nearly as many Nazi night fighters, suffered the heaviest single loss of the war-96 bombers...
...price inflation. Much of it they had earned the hard way, by longer hours of sweat, toil-and some cause for tears. After a wet late spring that brought disastrous floods and killing frosts, they plowed and seeded from sunup to midnight. Some worked by moonlight; others -rigged up floodlights, or mounted battery-operated searchlights on their tractors...
...midnight it was bitterly cold. Men arriving in the drainage ditch unreeled their wire, installed telephones. Other outfits marched up. In the dim moonlight officers assembled their little rear units, started them digging in the soft black earth. The first group already had its orders; long strings of shadowy figures were moving toward Highway...