Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, doctors have disagreed as to how long vision is impaired by the sun's glare. Dr. Peckham found from his studies with lifeguards that much of the effect wears off overnight, but in most people some effect persists for two or three days, and in some cases it continues for more than a week...
These words were written by Hamilton Fish '10 on October 21, 1948, in his foreword to "The History of Football at Harvard." Fish, a former captain ('09) of football here, was basking in in the illusion that Arthur Valpey would accomplish miracles overnight...
Panamanians hurrying to early Mass learned with some surprise what had happened overnight. No one had been hurt; only two men were still jailed. The only real inconvenience had been the nightlong shutdown of telephones...
Russia plainly hopes by degrees to wipe out our position in China. Yet this cannot be done overnight. It is by no means certain that the Chinese Communists want to subordinate themselves to Russia or that they wish to eliminate American contact, or that, if they do, they can succeed soon. No matter what the Chinese Communists want, China is still oriented toward the West in many ways commercial, educational, cultural...
...Votes. It had taken quite a while for the U.S. to make out what Bob Hutchins was really driving at. One of the explanations for that lay in Hutchins himself and in the way he went about his job at Chicago. "I have no idea of revolutionizing it overnight," he announced at the beginning; but he soon seemed to be doing just that. "Why are you in such a hurry?" a professor once asked him. Replied Hutchins: "No successful president ever did anything to a school after his first five years...