Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold dawn of March 4, 1897, a freight train drew into the city of Washington. Two dirty, shivering, hungry young hoboes hopped off the bumpers and began to wear out the pavements of the Capital. One of them tried to cash a check for $15. He was indignantly refused, although he explained that his father was a judge in Pittsburgh and he was a freshman at Princeton. The two hungry boys walked up to a well-dressed man in the street. He smiled when he saw them and grinned when they told their story. "Here's $20," he said...
...Ramadan. Since the annual period of 30 days during which faithful Moslems must not eat or drink between dawn and darkness, "The Ramadan," began last week, the armies of Krim have found themselves somewhat at a disadvantage. While Riffian stomachs were adjusting themselves anew to this yearly status quo, no engagements of note were reported...
...According to Socialist doctrine, capitalism is dying and the capitalist is a vampire, a Shylock. According to our doctrine all this is nothing but bad literature. Not only is capitalism not declining but it has not even reached the dawn...
Later Irvine and Mallory made the great trial. Leaving their camp at midnight, they were seen shortly after dawn but 600 feet from success. A flash of snow obscured them from sight and they were never seen again...
Soon after dawn his Japanese physician visited him, blanched. Rushing from the room he telegraphed to Berne for a specialist, to Geneva for a nurse, to London for another nurse. Prince Chichibu had been stricken with measles?a serious disease for an adult...