Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there presented a particularly attractive appearance. Of the remaining nineteen boxes there were three in the Game Room, six in the Periodical Room, three in the Writing Room, and seven in the Dining Room. These rooms were lighted by colored Japanese lanterns, which made a pleasing contrast to the dark green of the palms and laurel ropes festooned on the walls. The Living Room, where the dancing took place, was decorated only with a few palms around the fireplaces and a large crimson 1908 banner on the south wall. The receiving party stood at the west end of the Living...
...dread of that New York organized a Board of Health that set about teaching the new world the a, b, c of sanitation. Pigs were banished from streets and cellars, and that first year 40,000 windows were cut to let light into 40,000 tenement bedrooms that were dark and unventilated. Forty years we have wrestled with the powers of darkness and at last the law forbids the building of a tenement with a dark and airless room in it. The day is coming when it will forbid a man to own one. Meanwhile the sanitarians are trying...
...there is enough that is yet undone. The last census of the tenements in New York showed that there were in them yet 350,000 and over of the dark rooms the Board of Health deemed fatal in 1866. Since then we have found the bacillus of tuberculosis and the fight with the White Plague has been taken up all over the land. In New York City we have every year 8000 deaths from tuberculosis and there are always 20,000 persons dying from the scourge. Is it any wonder, when laboratory experiments have shown that, whereas...
...competitors should report promptly at 3.30, and in order that the games may be finished before dark should be ready at least 15 minutes before the scheduled time for their events. Numbers must be secured at the Locker Building before entering any of the events. The officials for the games, whose names appeared in Tuesday's CRIMSON, must be on hand promptly at 3.30 o'clock, and no badges will be held after...
...most striking characteristic of Professor Shaler's mind was its alertness. He resembled a photographer who takes you into his dark room saying, "I have instantaneous photographs on all those subjects"; which he proceeds to develop; and you go away with new impressions. The range of his scientific thoughts extended from the depths of the earth to the mountains of the moon...