Word: daylong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This game, a far cry from the early or injun variety which involved whole tribes in daylong action over several aerea of field, is played by teams of ten sober, able-bodied American youths on playing fields all over the nation-year even on the Business School Field, home of Bruce Munro and Harvard's increase team...
...Army in Berlin. Ten months after her husband's death in a plane crash in Paris, Mrs. Power had still not received his insurance. The President ordered the Veterans Administration to get hopping. The VA grumbled, but hopped. Then the President boarded the Williamsburg for a daylong, family cruise across the green gulf waters to the Dry Tortugas...
...past fortnight, New Yorkers have been having their first look at daylong television. Beginning at 7 a.m. Du Mont's WABD flickers along all day until the regular evening program starts. The programs are strongly reminiscent of daytime radio: setting-up exercises, Broadway gossip, popular music, women's news-everything except soap opera...
...chorus in ice shows, to the spotlight. For two summers show has been featured at the St. Paul Pops. The Pops are evenings of Music supplied by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, punctuated by two short ice revues. The season is a rugged one of three performances and six daylong rehearsals every week, and Barbara keeps fit for them on a concessionaire's diet of vanilla ice cream canes and potato chips...
Last week, the French took over. To the rostrum stepped François de Menthon, a mild-looking law professor with a scraggly mustache and professorially stooped shoulders, who had been a member of the French underground and was now chief French prosecutor at Nürnberg. In a daylong oration he opened France's case, which deals with slave labor, looting and atrocities in six occupied countries. Said he: "A tortured peoples' craving for justice is the basic foundation of France's call...