Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from EDC to lawn grubs, were pulsating with a lively controversy. The question: What is the most perfect line of poetry in the English language? Some of the entries: "The uncertain glory of an April day" (William Shakespeare), "If Winter Comes, can Spring be far behind?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley), "Dawn skims the sea with flying feet of gold" (Algernon Swinburne), "The moan of doves in immemorial elms" (Alfred Lord Tennyson), and finally, the suggestion of a reader named W. A. Ingram, who submitted: "As in old wine lies summer half asleep." The author, revealed Reader Ingram, was something less than...
...went down to Mexico to break in. "My God," said the first track manager he talked to. "If you rode in a race, those guys would kill you." He went back to Chicago to try out as an exercise boy, on two successive mornings got up for dawn workouts only to find that it was snowing. He "stood in bed" and turned instead to handicapping for the Racing Form...
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...young womanhood she spent much time riding horses on her father's ranches. It was her habit to arise at 2 p.m., have breakfast and stay up until dawn of the next day. When she became interested in a young hotel clerk, Edwin Clyde Northen, her father advised him to get into the insurance business and, after they were married, helped him. They had no children, and in recent years Mrs. Northen spent most of the time with her father. Her husband died...
Lady of Beauty, by Kikou Yamata. An aristocratic lady of prewar Japan profiled in a novel as spare and beautiful as Fujiyama at dawn (TIME...