Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is why before this morning's dawn, much before the guys and dolls, who, will eventually head for Suffolk Downs this afternoon, are even awake, a small band of the faithful will head out on the Wellesley-Newton line to witness the Waban Futility, a two furlong free for all for maritally minded maidens...
...Ruins at Dawn. The work of claiming the living soon ended. Despite the plumes of white water which finally rose to the smoking walls, the fire roared with almost explosive fury. The roof and all the floors crashed in. Debris rumbled down. At dawn, as the pumps labored, St. Anthony's was a smoking ruin...
...midnight, the shaft was down 41 feet; by 4 a.m., down 65 feet. Then the drilling stopped; the shaking of the drill might cave in the sandy California soil in the bigger pit. As dawn broke hot and clear over the San Gabriel Mountains, the snorting, clangorous power shovels had dug a pit 57 feet deep. "Whitey" Blickensderfer, 43, an unemployed ex-sandhog, was lowered into the crater with a partner-little, gnomelike O. A. Kelly, an out-of-work carpenter and ex-miner. By midmorning, they had tunneled to the well pipe, cut a small exploratory window...
...plump 56, Gaines still rises at dawn, still likes to promenade about the campus swinging one of his 30 canes. He himself never forgets the traditions of W. & L. ("You may not be aware of it," he tells dinner guests in the president's house, "but Lee died in this room.") Nor can his minks, surrounded as they are by a statue of George Washington on the cupola, the bronze plaques that mark the places where Yankee cannon balls hit during the Civil War, the tomb of Lee himself, and the polished skeleton of Lee's favorite horse...
...Grand Illusion. "For us in Britain, the 19th Century ended amid the glories of the Victorian era, and we entered upon the dawn of the 20th in high hope . . . Little did we guess that what has been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together. . . We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us ... In the name of ordered but unceasing progress we saluted the Age of Democracy ... It was to ... tasks...