Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Guardsmen were aquiver with excitement. On the night before the big Red drive, few if any of them got any sleep. Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, commanding the 154th Brigade of the New York Guard, waited bravely for the attack at the Wrightstown-Lakewood crossroads. When along toward dawn it did not occur, he rolled up in his blanket and took a 60-minute catnap on the roadside...
...engineer-father to rig an ordinary amateur cinema camera at the small end of Princeton's 23-inch telescope. They slowed down the camera's action 100 times, since a lunar day passes 9/1000 as fast as an earthly one, and took a picture of how dawn comes to Copernicus, one of the moon's biggest pits. Because the moon has no atmosphere, there is little or no crepuscular glow. The sun ''rises" abruptly, deep black shadows retreating sharply before it. In the Arnott film, shown last week by Princeton Professor John Stewart, the silver...
...Before dawn, two men entered the home of Sheriff Carl Emison at Alamo and demanded the prisoner. Sheriff Emison hid the jail keys under a divan, tried to outtalk his visitors. A few minutes later the angry Mob arrived. Before they battered down his door, he opened it. They found his keys...
...Police Station assigned a squad of detectives to the case. Last week the mystery was solved. Detective Tokuda of the Central Office discovered a gold ring and wrist watch belonging to one of the robbed houses in a pawn shop. Quickly he summoned a cordon of police, rushed at dawn into the home of Toyoshi Nakamura, a young chauffeur. Faced by scowling gendarmerie, Chauffeur Nakamura confessed all. His duties kept him busy from 5 p. m. until dawn, he said. He had robbed the geisha houses for money with which to attend dance halls and amuse himself in his spare...
This dismal childhood was brightened by thought of Harvey Brune, "the whistling boy." All night once he had played the kirk organ while she blew the bellows. At dawn, annoyed that the blowing stopped, he clambered down to find her fainted from exhaustion. Years later he accepted quite as mercilessly her bright offering of love, only to fling it aside for his music...