Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Photographic Board offers training in a completely equipped dark room; the making of every type of picture by daylight or flashlight. Come around tomorrow...
...eight Negro policemen, was almost killed when a local badman emptied a shotgun into him point blank. Chased by one mob after another while terribly wounded, he developed his lifelong fear of lynching, surrendered to the authorities, who let him escape. Cutting his way out of jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative peace and prosperity until he killed Deputy Sheriff Charlie Webb, whose friends, resenting it, lynched Hardin...
...received medals from the Franklin Institute for diffraction color photography, artificial daylight, and studies of the Welsbach mantle, and was awarded the John Scott medal for work in electrical telephotography and television. In 1932 he was Lowell lecturer in Boston and in 1933 was Thomas Young orator of the Physical Society of London. In that same year he delivered the Traill-Taylor memorial lecture of the Royal Photographic Society...
...Eastern Shore, waiting for Trapper Tom Reed. Each night Reed approached, fled without touching his traps. At last Agent Steele realized that the trapper was warned by the absence of duck, which, once flushed by the wardens, returned no more that night. On Dec. 20, 1934, in daylight, the agent and two deputies rose up from the marsh, surprised Tom Reed in the act of baiting his traps...
...childless wife, went rushing off to meet her husband, homing from India; twins were common in his family. Arthur's wife put him on a nourishing diet, made him take unaccustomed exercise. Stephen had a horror feminae ever since an impassioned girl had bitten his ear in broad daylight in a Florentine cafe, but he nearly fell an unwilling prey to a legacy-stalking female. Hilary was too settled a spinster to change her ways...