Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were crowded, but washroom spittoons were polished like gold again, and porters waved their whisk brooms politely over departing passengers. The country which rushed by outside the windows had an amazing look of vigor and opulence; new automobiles gleamed on highways, new houses stood expensively in muddy yards. At dusk the homing passenger could glimpse the never-ending glimmer of colored Christmas lights in streets, stores and farmhouses. From the air, the U.S. seemed even richer; there was a look of treasure in the jeweled electric glitter of its cities seen by night...
...long time and decided the baby could not be his. So one day when recruiters for the British Free Corps came around, he joined up, "just as a sad little dog, finding himself far from home in streets where they throw things, with rain falling and the dusk thickening, will follow any passerby...
...country over have been throwing all reason to the winds in calling this spectacular clash. Local bookmakers give the home team an eight-point edge. Yale's injured backs ran smoothly yesterday afternoon as the Elis held their final practice of the year on the Bowl gridiron just before dusk. The squad looked balanced and high-spirited despite its shattering defeats of the past two weekends. Earlier in the afternoon on the same gridiron Harvard was cheerful and showed no signs of tension as the 38-man visiting team held its last warmup before the big game...
Punting into Dusk...
After concentrating hard on pass defense, the team worked until dusk on punting under pressure. Besides Wally Flynn, who has done most of the game kicking this fall, Chuck Roche, Chip Gannon, and Gibby Warren were booting the ball...