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...daybreak, and bitter cold, the huge station's black and sooty iron arch gigantically sprawls over people. Mobs, like a water whirlpool, center sullenly turning, edges flicking, breaking, everywhere soldiers, soldiers, soldiers. Clots of people about them, wives, children, relatives, friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...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 »

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