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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists gathered on the private airport of Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green at Round Hill. Mass. On a scaffold 30 ft. over their heads, a 100-ft. length of slender pipe pointed a battery of nozzles across the field. The sun set and the dusk thickened. All eyes were turned toward Buzzards Bay, where a bank of fog was rolling inland. The men had been waiting for fog for days...
...sanatorium lights shone brightly in the summer dusk. Marie Curie lapsed into coma. Next morning at daybreak she died. Her body was taken to Paris. In a crypt 20 miles from Paris, her remains were placed beside those of her husband. Only witnesses were her daughters, son-in-law, a handful of intimate associates. One by one, in silence, they filed past the casket and each laid on it a rose. The world Press rang with acclaim for the greatest woman scientist in history...
...dusk his train sped north and east to Manhattan where he arrived after midnight. A few hours' sleep in his East 65th Street home and he was up & away to review the U. S. Fleet aboard the cruiser Indianapolis...
...dusk falls on the Yard tonight, the first of the spring concerts by the Glee Club will be underway. Promptly at seven o'clock, G. Wallace Woodworth, who has been substituting for Dr. Davison this year, will mount the steps of Widener to direct the singers in their program...
That night the Paraguayans came over again, four times, but the darkness was not cover enough from the machine guns. Slow learners, they kept it up next day, trotting in solid lines across the plain, across the bodies of their day-old dead. On the fourth day as dusk drew in, the Paraguayan officers led their men in two last desperate charges, as futile as all the others. Thus ended the "Battle of 100 Hours'' at Las Conchitas. The dead...