Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everything necessary is in a sufficiently advanced state for the day is development to dawn. Enthusiastic pilots exist in plenty and more can be trained Machines and engines, as the record of achievement can easily prove, are sufficiently perfected for all practical purposes. Aviation is known to all and the science of meteorology has come to be her handmaid. The offices of designers and inventors are full of future plans on gigantic scales which will come naturally to fruition as soon as a genuine primary movement is evinced...
Bain: A Reifer of the Dawn...
...President Poincare of France recently remarked that the Conference at Versailles made a great mistake in assuming that President Wilson represented all America. Coming from such a prominent Frenchman, this significant remark shows that the position of the United States in regard to the League is beginning to dawn on European minds. The Covenant was originated by our former President, who, while he probably considered himself a servant of his people, had no conclusive evidence as to the desires of those he undertook to represent, and consequently became a self-appointed master...
...found in the parallel of a pitiful story dealing with Russia, Queen Catharine and an innocent little violet. It seems that one evening, Her Highness discovered the flower in the strange process of growing in the Royal park, and deciding not to pluck it until the following dawn, caused a sentry to be stationed near at hand to indicate the spot. The incident promptly escaped the Queen's memory, with the result that the devoted sentinel spent the rest of his days loyally guarding the sacred precinct...
...dawn of a new era in American history, the important role played by the Cabinet cannot be over-emphasized. In choosing his advisers Mr. Harding has been guided by three considerations,--service to country, popularity, and politics. The last seems to have had no inconsiderable influence...