Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discerned something more than fantasy behind his terrified eyes and whirling words, followed the boy back to the river and found, under the hand, the body of a onetime bartender for Mr. Birger, wrapped in a horse-blanket and riddled with bullets. The sheriff was bothered, because at dawn that same morning he had been called out to have a look at one William B. McQuay who lay in his automobile three miles north of Herrin on the road to Johnson City. Sixteen steel-jacketed machine-gun bullets had passed variously through McQuay's body...
...defeat was due to an economic blockade! . . . We ask only 122,400,000 more yen ($60,000,000), this year, to replace auxiliary craft now ready to be scrapped. . . . Surely Japan is not so poor that she cannot pay this sum to maintain her present fighting strength! . . . The dawn of our modern naval history has been glorious. The high noon of Japanese sea power must be worthy of our naval heroes who walk with Count Togo through the twilight of life...
Their California office assembled 600 workmen, steam shovels, concrete mixers, derricks, lumber, steel, wires and glass. They had a 70-acre field to cover with buildings. Austin's planning department functioned smoothly. Supply dealers (mostly in Los Angeles) moved their materials on schedule. Men labored from dawn to dusk. In just 70% working days from the moment ground was broken this new cinema "city" was ready for First National Pictures to begin production...
...Heine's poems, her own lovely hands. But her steely pride was turned upon itself, 'her mortal enemy. Not even religion could resign her to the indignities of poverty. When she felt her time upon her, she stole off alone to a Pacific headland, to watch dawn break over...
...Lord Bishop, whose predecessors have been lords in Fulham since the days of Saint Erkenwald, 1200 years ago, is an author of considerable note. His works include "The Potter and the Clay," "Rays of Dawn," "Victory and After," and "The Spirit of Peace." He was born in Worcestershire, England, January 28, 1858, and was made Bishop of London in 1901. In 1915 he was created Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 1918 made Prelate of the Order of the British Empire...