Word: dusk
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Will man ever fly around the earth between sunup and dusk? It sounds dubious; but 25 years ago it seemed dubious that he would...
...dusk fell Colonel House dashed up the gangplank of the Mauretania. Soon her propellers were frothing a mile-long track of bubbles in the moonlight...
Through the dusk, down a soiled street, beside a factory wall, a file of men were marching. Their clothes were the color of the wall. Their faces were the color of the dusk. They walked without animation, each to his own tune as if they were following a drum that had been silenced. Where the wall ended, a row of policemen made a stiff blue dam across the street, leaving a gap just wide enough for the passage of these twilight marchers, right foot, left foot, shoulder to shoulder...
...brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...
...scandalous developments in connection with the notorious "Thirty Billion Franc Forgery" (TIME, Feb. 1). Although some four to six policemen guarded every streetcorner, the Opposition Leader, Deputy Vasony, a former Minister of Justice, found himself looking up the muzzle of a revolver as he left the Parliament House, at dusk...