Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champagne washed down 26 courses, beginning with caviar and ending with bonbons. After 25 toasts, count was lost. Guests left as the morning sun struck the Kremlin's eastern battlements. Churchill who has dressed for dinner virtually every night of his adult life, wore his zippered overall "siren suit." What prompted him to wear it, what protests from Sawyers he overruled, he alone knew. Moscow wondered, decided finally that he was an "individualist...
When the horn stop Widener went off about 4 o'clock, the Navy was drilling in the Yard, and many people were standing around watching them. Several classes were in session in Sever and the other Halls. But within a very few minutes of the siren's wall, the Yard was cleared, passers-by and students were sent to shelter, and the Yard ARP force was in good working order...
Because of the blackout which will be announced by the air raid siren tonight, be sure to turn out all lights before retiring. New students especially are reminded that lights may be turned on during the blackout only if their room is equipped with blackout shades. Ordinary shades are not sufficient. Also, no one is to be out-of-doors during the blackout, unless on official ARP business. Violation of blackout rules will result in disciplinary action...
Tonight, or, strictly speaking, in the wee hours of the morning, the siren on top of Widener will let loose with its unearthly moan, street lights all over Cambridge will go out, and Harvard's fourth test blackout will be under way. Defense plants will adjust their blackout shades, all night bean-cries will be darkened, and those solitary night-owls who are still up and about will have to snuff out their midnight...
Harvard students should have little difficulty observing the blackout. The great majority will be asleep, but if the siren wakes them, they must remember not to turn on a light to see what it's all about, and, more important, to leave no lights burning when they go to bed. Those who keep late hours must be warned again that only if a room is equipped with approved blackout shades may any light be left on. Ordinary shades are not sufficient. And no matter how beautiful the night, they must keep indoors during the test. Anyone not on official...