Word: daybreak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...include the slaughter at one blow of all the Huguenot leaders, thus ruining the Protestant party in France. At length persuading the King that the massacre was a measure of public safety, she succeeded in wringing from him his consent, and on the fateful Sunday at daybreak the massacre began, spreading ultimately throughout France and claiming 50,000 victims. Meyerbeer's opera, Les Huguenots, is founded on the tragedy...
...daybreak the Black Fleet came into the attack. They were able to approach some 4,000 yards closer because the Fort Randolph batteries were silenced. It was decided that the damage done by the bombardment was not serious and could be repaired during the night. During the afternoon the first Blue battleship, the California, reached the Atlantic. Meanwhile the Black Fleet retired to Porto Bello replenish its ammunition...
...both Spartan and Puritan in the early days of Massachusetts Hall. The students performed their ablutions in the chill New England air at a pump in the College yard. The regulation College breakfast was "a cue (mug) of beer and two sizings of bread." Students were up at daybreak and were kept at their studies by candle-light. If the frequent verbal admonitions of their tutors failed to keep them at their books, a stout stick was resorted to. One unfortunate youth, on being chastised by the Reverend Nathaniel Eaton, first President of Harvard, cried aloud for Heaven to sustain...