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Word: daybreak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet Sunday, 100 guerrillas raided the Japanese-owned Bank of Taiwan, bayoneted three guards, smashed open the safes, grabbed $260,000 in notes, $90,000 in silver coins, escaped with a 20-minute lead. Baffled Japanese clamped martial law on the city that night, lifted it again before daybreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Currency Warriors | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...daybreak bringing delight to the opening eyelids

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine and Two | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...daybreak Sheriff H. C. Hinton and a posse of eight with bloodhounds started looking for Negro Wilder McGowan, 24. A crowd of Wiggins men watched them start. Toward noon, while Sheriff Hinton and his men were looking for McGowan at the Ten-Mile sawmill where he used to work, the Wiggins town siren sounded. Sheriff Hinton knew what that meant. The mob had found McGowan sleeping under a truck at his grandmother's house. Afterold Mrs. N identified him, they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 7 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...daybreak each morning, 100 to 200 of the country's best-bred foxhounds, with identification numbers painted on their sides, lined up at the casting ground, their handlers behind them. At a signal from the purple-coated Master of Hounds, they were unleashed, followed by nine judges on horseback and, five minutes later, some 200 riders on mounts ranging from expensive hunters to plow-galled plugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxhunters | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...During the day it is His Britannic Majesty's Government, while from nightfall to daybreak it is the rebels' government," cracked Arab villagers. The Oozlebarts, operating under an "unknown generalissimo" with headquarters at Damascus, have set up their own civil and military courts. Arab villagers prefer to take their squabbles to Oozlebart civil courts, which apply Islamic law and charge nothing (Palestine court fees are notoriously high). Oozlebart military courts dispense quick justice, sometimes death, to Arabs caught selling land to Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Oozlebarts and Cantor | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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