Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would give the sporting writers a much needed new stock phrase Instead of the proverbial "crimson sunset" now it can be the crimson sunrise and the cold gray dawn...
...would relieve the speculator situation. There would be none to pay high prices for tickets The idle rich don't get up at dawn...
...final test-flying at Hampton Roads. Both planes had functioned perfectly when, loaded to weigh ten tons each, they set off (though No. 1, with Lieutenant Connell at the controls, had some difficulty rising). All night the flyers' radio reports told of perfect control and conditions-until dawn, when, cutting across Cuba, Commander Bartlett was obliged to report that his ample oil supply was unaccountably being exhausted. The motors were evidently "oil hogs." He descended at dawn at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the non-stop flight half frustrated...
...resort there is Roumania. But she chooses Boston, thus proving that you never can tell. To the Herald her accomplishment is a signal for an extra; to the American it means a high life expose. The residents along the Post Roard stand on their porches, shivering in the November dawn, chatting and awaiting the Sears cortege. After it has passed, headed by the ambitious lady, they so back to bed. And by the time they have fallen asleep the parade is miles beyond. For sic transit gloria mundi, gloria pedes and gloria Eleanora...
...sharp November night thinned out into a grey November dawn over rocky Utah. The broad reaches of Great Salt Lake caught up pale sunrise colors. On desolate Antelope Island in the Southeastern corner of the lake the buffalo* herd slowly bestirred itself to test the morning air. Like shaggy brown mounds they looked in the dim light, lurching up lazily from sleep: here three cows and their calves in a grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended...