Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn, on the edge of a jungle, he cut off his long hair with a sword, exchanged clothes with a wretched mendicant, and betook himself with five disciples to a gorge in the Vindhya Mountains, where he gave himself up to fasting and terrible penances. His fame spread "like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies." One day he decided that to attempt to reach God through the emptiness of his belly was preposterous. He ate a healthy meal; refused to continue his morti- fications. His disciples left him. For a long while...
...early dawn, the body was conveyed as privately as possible to Windsor; and there, in the Albert Memorial Chapel, the last and strictly private rites were performed in the presence of only the British royal family and the Kings of Norway and Denmark, the Queen of Norway, Prince George of Greece and the Princess, and Prince Olaf of Norway...
YOUNG WOODLEY - Adolescence and the dawn of sex are so often funny. Glenn Hunter is occupied with their pathos...
...speech before the Debating Union asserted with great gusto and assurance that he had heard of no overemphasis of football at New Haven, that no hint of it had come from Princeton, and that any one who mentioned such a thing at Hanover would be shot at dawn. But it seems that the Major was a bit premature...
...sideshow is seriously threatening to swallow the big show." And the Dartmouth undergraduate paper writes: "We agree with the Harvard CRIMSON. . . Intercollegiate football is a menace in its present form, and steps should be taken to restore it to its properly subordinate position." And the days continue to dawn without any shooting...