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...electric eye" carefully measures the amount of light and at sunset automatically switches on parking lights. It cannot be fooled by clouds and always keeps a few minutes ahead of darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT GOD HATH WROUGHT! | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

Leaving behind in Panama a wreath of newspaper eulogies calling him "the world's best neighbor," President Roosevelt and the Houston vanished into a blazing Pacific sunset. Next day the cruiser anchored off tiny Cocos Island, 500 mi. west of Panama, where Vincent Astor had told the President there was good fishing. From its davits the President's special fishing launch splashed into the blue waters. All hands applauded when the President hooked, played and landed a 50 lb. ono (mackerel-like fish). Franklin Jr.'s ono had its tail snapped off by a shark as it was being pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Great-Uncle | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blended Scotch | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...farmers nothing else" is strikingly touching. The now grown son, like father, ironically enough, loses the woman he loves to his half brother, and the elder Rood who pays doubly for his sin when Georgie becomes a prominent engineer in a glass works in another city, spends the sunset of his life with Mamie, after Jake Karcher meets his death at the hands of his wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK OF THE WEEK | 1/31/1934 | See Source »

...remember the place where you last saw a beautiful sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Shame Chart | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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