Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been prepared for the young guests. Entertainments of a more serious nature will be offered at Phillips Brooks House during the vacation for the benefit of students of the University who find it impossible to go home for the holidays. Included among these will be the annual Christmas night reception...
...night in the year the female comes ashore to lay her eggs along the deserted southern beaches. A timid creature, the turtle takes fright at the slightest sound or light and retreats to the ocean, to return again at some more opportune time, always under the cover of darkness. How to photograph this episode in the life cycle of the turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious...
With but one more day in which to watch his hockey charges before they inaugurate the 1929-30 season at the Garden against B. U. tomorrow night Coach Joseph Stubbs is as yet undecided on his starting lineup...
Musical: THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus score), BITTER SWEET, SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN...
...pages, containing 275,000 words of editorial matter, comprised 295-1/6 sq. ft., enough to paper the ceiling of a room 24½ ft. x 12 ft. An average reader (225 words per minute) would take 20 hr., 20 min., to peruse it. Sixty 45-ton presses, working night & day shifts, printed it in three weeks. A total of 214 national advertisers appeared in it, 63 in color. At an average of $9,000 per page, the advertising revenue was approximately $1,512,000. The issue consumed 3,000 tons of paper, 60 tons...