Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough for the biggest. Into executive session went major industrial exhibitors (investment: $35,000,000) and voted to ask the Fair to cut the gate to 50?. Concessionaires, whose girl shows have failed to turn the trick at the tills, went further. Their demand: a 25? admission fee at night...
Homeward bound on the Pennsylvania one night, an idea struck him. In the arid west, where the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has for years provided water and sometimes generated power as a byproduct, Bond & Share units have bought this public power and transmitted it to their own customers over their own lines. Why could not Bond & Share keep Bonneville and Grand Coulee from building transmission lines by the same means? Why not buy their power and distribute it, dovetailing public power plants with private transmission lines and private meters...
...glacial rocks, shrewd lamas, innumerable prayer-wheels, odoriferous grime somehow delight his Cambridge-bred soul. He had been to Tibet once before and was glad to get back: "It was good to taste real buttered tea again. ... We ourselves were awash by the time the tents were up. ... That night it was just as it had been two years before. . . horsebells jingling; the howl of a dog; a voice in the distance singing a mournful song; and over everything the smell of wood smoke and grease...
...tall Thracian named Spartacus, 70 Roman gladiators ran off from their master one night in 73 B. C. Times were restless; a year later Spartacus had a guerrilla army of 100,000, armed with clubs, spears, the tridents of the gladiators' trade...
...tied his professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...