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Word: twilighter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surely Japan is not so poor that she cannot pay this sum to maintain her present fighting strength! . . . The dawn of our modern naval history has been glorious. The high noon of Japanese sea power must be worthy of our naval heroes who walk with Count Togo through the twilight of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Sea Noon | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...consolation that could be denied from its excellence, and Holy Cross allowing the Crimson stands at least three periods of exultation. William and Mary struck a faster, smoother, keener eleven than Boston newspaper writers had seen for several years. The grand Crimson climax came when French sprinted through the twilight to top the twelve points scored by a far from important Dartmouth team. Last week saw a 69 to 5 snowfall over Tufts, which may prove much or very little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER MAY CHANGE HIS SPOTS THIS AFTERNOON | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

...very intense, very subtle. A rare woman's whole life is told and her time etched in around her with a touch as sure as it is delicate. It adds immensely to the literature of places as well as of people, particularly with a violet, snow-powdered December twilight in old Madison Square, which once was "like an open-air drawing room." What the work represents spiritually, no reader will soon show another, save that the tragedy of a strong, restrained nature, devoid of falsity or baseness, is a moving thing to watch, to experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Twilight and harvest moon, he too would pray...

Author: By D. C. Backus l., | Title: All Kinds and Conditions of Verse | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Children of the morningtide With the hosts of noon had died; And our noon contingents lay Dead with twilight's spent array...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loud Kipling | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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