Word: noonday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon's parade marks one of the highlights in a crowded, four-day program of festivities which began Monday with softball at Soldiers Field, tours of the University and a noonday swim at the Indoor Athletic Building Pool, and which will wind up tomorrow afternoon with a farewell tea at Eliot House...
...Thousands of white soldiers worked unprotected in the noonday sun, often-bareheaded, without ill effects...
Incredible cold gripped the Whitehorse Valley of the Yukon. Nothing moved. If a man spat out of his doorway, the spittle exploded in mid-air with a sharp crack. It was 82.6° below zero; the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. Aloft in the noonday gloom the wild, arctic winds tore mile-long snow streamers from the peaks and made a great yelling that the valley could not hear...
...overburdened that Pedro had to get up an hour early to catch the streetcar to work. To save money, Pedro had also stopped lunching downtown, and that meant another scramble for a ride home. Maria, his wife, knew how to stretch a peso, but the noonday meal seldom varied from the traditional puchero (meat and vegetable stew...
...Orleans rousingly revived its carnival, a wartime casualty, before facing the minor austerities of Lent. U.S. Protestants again showed their increasing interest in Lent as part of "the collective experience of our historic Christianity," took over theaters in many cities to preach Christ's significance to noonday crowds...