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Word: dawn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful: the first is a quantity of snow--the better to ski with, my dear. One is told that Jupiter-Pluvius, or whoever arranges such things, has never yet failed Dartmouth College. There has always been snow for Carnival. The night may have closed on a green world but dawn was huge drifts on the white Mountains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNOWBOUND | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

Married. Miss Louise Hunter, prima donna of Golden Dawn, current light opera in Manhattan; to Henry Haven Winsor Jr., of Evanston, ill., wealthy publisher of Popular Mechanics; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...prowler slipped out of the darkness and haunted Westmorly Court, sending chills up and down the spines of some of the awakened students as they trembled beneath the sheets, talking unconcernedly with others who were burning the midnight oil, and after a hairbreadth escape vanished in the murky grey dawn with over $100 in cash and over a dozen gold watches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wealth of Westmorly Looted by Mysterious Matutinal Marauder--Victims Quake in Bed as Thief Robs Rooms | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Half hid in dawn mist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/28/1928 | See Source »

...Angeles saw no speck, wheeled for home. She lives at Lakehurst, N. J., where she was housed after 1200 nautical miles cruising, 700 of them at sea. Newspapers detailed her movements calmly. It did not occur to many readers that December dangers which had drowned the Dawn threatened the dirigible. She was too big, too safe to shrink from weather which might kill a heavier-than-air machine. Some few were perplexed. If dirigibles are so dependable, they wondered, why all this bother about airplanes. Why not build dirigibles instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patrol | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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