Word: night
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Individuals vary widely, Dr. Peckham found, but on an average, sensitivity to light at night is reduced by more than one-third after a day at the beach without sunglasses; in some cases it is reduced by nine-tenths. The loss in sensitivity cuts down night vision in a "logarithmic proportion": the average driver loses 13% of his visual acuity, the extreme case loses...
...lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown and Luella Larder, of the army's Greater New York division, command one such corps (church) at 349 Bowery. One night last week, as they had hundreds of other times, they gathered to their fold some 200 men-refugees from the saloons attracted by amplified phonograph music, drawn by hunger, curiosity or loneliness to McKeown and Larder's service...
...command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
...Lufkin, Texas (pop. 22,500), one cold night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
...appearance on the screen brought cries of "Back it up!" Then the operator would oblige by rewinding it and showing the female again. When any heroine displayed signs of falling in love the audience implored: "Don't run off with that bum! Wait till I get home!" One night, men of Headquarters Battalion got so mad at Charles Boyer they threw coral rocks at the screen...