Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...latest thing in laboratories. The building has no foundation directly under its outside walls. Instead, the foundation is a central core of concrete embedded 54 ft. into the ground. The core, which contains elevators, heating pipes, etc., supports the 15 floors in cantilever fashion, thus allows maximum daylight illumination on all sides. Said Wright: "Up in the air is the natural place for a laboratory . . . Our industrial system has believed so much in science and so little in art that it has produced chiefly weeds. But now I see a flower among those weeds...
Nothing Sacred. In Nashville, a hoodlum made off in broad daylight with a $50 radio from the police station...
Only a day after marines had driven the last North Koreans off the field, workhorse C-54s and C-119 "Flying Boxcars" were starting to set down at Kimpo at the rate of one every ten minutes during the daylight hours-almost half the average Berlin airlift rate...
...When daylight of March 6 came, the ocean was empty except for six straggling LCMs, three of them going in our direction and three going in the opposite direction. [The] Army boat group commander had no idea where Beach Red was. [Staff officers] and I got out maps and by inspection determined that what we were looking at toward our right was, in fact, Willaumez Peninsula. By checking the silhouette of the peaks we were also able to determine the approximate location of Beach...
Even Australia-born Harry Bridges, never at a loss for a sour remark, didn't seem to be too grateful for the workings of U.S. justice. "I'm not out of prison," he said as he stepped cockily into the San Francisco daylight. "The whole country is a prison...