Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Uses predicted; Letting dusk and dawn turn a city's lights on and off automatically; letting burglars announce their presence with their own flashlights, fires with their own glare; counting persons or automobiles passing by their shadows; stopping a train by its own searchlight or vibrations...
Fifteen years ago this morning the Titanic sank, slowly settling in the depths amid the quiet of an April dawn. And among her passengers was one whose name is daily on the lips of a host of Harvard men--the name of Harry Elkins Widener, "devoted to high ideals and characterized by scholarly habits and a fondness for collecting rare books...
...English character. To Mary it seems that the rusticity outweighs the refinement. Still, she loves him, agrees to marry him. But as they plan for a new sink at Doomsday and a pump to supply water for Mary's dishwashing, she loses heart. In despair she takes a dawn train away from Cinder Town, going to Weyfleet to her sister Clare...
...very close she came, one summer at the seashore, to having an affair with a handsome Pole. The doctor confesses a similar experience, but harbors vindictiveness towards his wife. That night he lets himself in for an extensive series of sex frustrations culminating in his ejection at dawn from an aristocratic club of masked carnalists. When he returns, his wife relates a dream she has had wherein she was anything but frustrated and in which without remorse, she saw him crucified. Vexed, he spends another evening trying to capture his waking dream, to make it come true, but the trail...
...apologia Colonel Lawrence writes finely in his preface: "They [the Arabs] were as unstable as water, and, like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coast of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed. . . . One such wave (and not the least) I raised...