Word: sunless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ducking other brickbats. Stuyvesant tenants wrote indignantly that their quarters were equal to anything in town at two or three times the rental and "they feel that they are in heaven." Said Mumford grumpily: "Like almost all New Yorkers, who have spent most of their lives in cramped, sunless, dusty and even garbagy blighted areas, they have no proper basis for judging Stuyvesant Town ... If one judges housing not in terms of rents and profits and prestige but in terms of human decency, the greater part of New York consists, in Patrick Geddes' words, of slums, semi-slums...
...mighty quiet in Stillman Infirmary's third floor ward Wednesday night, and a sunless Thankskiving was in prospect. "Old Faithful," the community radio, didn't work and there was neither music nor news...
Endurance. The weather was as somber as the darkest economic forecasts. This week the sun came out brightly for a few hours-for the first time in 22 days. In the 66 years London's Kew Observatory had been keeping tabs, there had never been such a long sunless period. Snow, icy gales and subfreezing temperatures were also out for endurance records. All week long there was frost, without a break. Reported the weatherman: "It's very rare to have continuous frost for more than three days; this sort of thing doesn't happen more than half...
...Sunless Days. From that time on Aimee spent much time in the courts and in the papers. There was a series of well-publicized battles between her and her mother over the management of the Temple, during one of which the ex-Salvation Army lass claimed that her reverend daughter had punched her in the nose. There were as many well-publicized reconciliations, and in 1930 the two went abroad together, where Aimee preached beside the Sea of Galilee, visited the nightclubs of Paris, and together they had their faces lifted. There was Aimee's third marriage...
...Lying in sunless crypts at West Point and elsewhere are some 86,000 tons of Treasury silver, U.S. and foreign. Its average cost to the Treasury was around 50? an ounce. To pay for it, the Treasury in effect manufactures paper money known as silver certificates, familiar to the public as $1, $5 and $10 bills. Each ounce of silver becomes $1.29 in paper money. This monetary magic permits the Treasury to use only a part of its silver as backing for certificates. The balance, called seigniorage or "free silver," amounts to some 40,000 tons. This the Treasury...