Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With lights guiding their way, the varsity and jayvee 150-1b, crews both defeated MIT Saturday evening on the Charles after the finish of the varsity heavies race. Earlier while it was still dusk, the freshmen fifties also beat the Engineers...
...week's end Chambers had his own personal troubles. His wife, driving through Baltimore at dusk to meet him at the railroad station, struck Mrs. Maggie Thomas, 70, who died in a hospital. Esther Chambers was charged with "assaulting, knocking down and causing the death" of Mrs. Thomas, released in $1,000 bail...
...crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the street from the White House with three Secret Service men and hurried inside. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was about to come to tea-and to make a last-ditch plea for aid to China...
...Hurry, Hurry!" Our train chuffed into Pengpu, 100 miles above Nanking, at dusk after a seven-hour trip. All along the steel corridor-single track except for station sidings-military traffic flowed heavily. Every railside town and village crawled with soldiers. Dumps of rice and munitions crowded rail platforms and yards. Bridges bristled with mudbrick pillboxes, defensive moats and brushworks...
...dusk approached, Miss Holmes decided to give...