Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might see "real naked women and it only costs a quarter." Grosser went and returned breathless, not because of the model (that night it was a shabby old man) but because he drew better than anyone in the class and loved...
...Close night schools (94,000 students...
...radio made a great to-do about it. Newscasters kept for U. S. tuners a here-they-come, there-they-go vigil from the moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This was largely due to the fact that many of radio's privileges during the visit depended on keeping on the right side...
...night of March 23 the Sea Dragon was some 1,200 miles west of Midway Island. In the same seas, 40 feet high, the liner President Coolidge was running' through a typhoon, her speed slowed to six knots. From the Sea Dragon Captain Welch radioed to Dale Collins, executive officer of the President Coolidge: Southerly gales, Squalls. Lee rail under water. Hard tack. Bully beef. Wet bunks. Having wonderful time. Wish you were here instead of me. Welch, Master...
...Collins heard nothing after that In his report to his company he wrote "If the Sea Dragon encountered such weather as we did on the night of March 23, and she undoubtedly did, there i small chance that the little craft survived...