Word: twilighter
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...line from telephone wires, hammered a fishing spoon out of a tin can and brought in strings of fat trout over the side of an assault boat. Others knock the heads off the foolish spruce partridge (Yukon chicken) which doze on the lower tree limbs in the summer twilight...
...brilliance of the boys from Westover Field, but a ninth inning error and some very sloppy fielding on the Crimson that turned victory into defeat at twilight yesterday and made it a sad day for Stahhmen, to the tune...
...airdromes and dispersal fields Chinese attendants ran from one group of pilots to another calling "One-ball jin bad" (one-ball air raid). The pilots climbed into their cockpits. The pursuits began to move, wheeling out of dust clouds in clots of threes, whirring down the runways. In the twilight Chungking's airraid wardens watched them wheel east to meet the enemy...
...majors have had fewer problems. The only night games affected by the sea-coast dimout are those held at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Manhattan's Polo Grounds, where the Dodgers and Giants now play at twilight instead. Some big-league stars have walked off to war; many more will follow. But up from the minors have come a bumper crop of rookies who have helped fans forget the Greenbergs, Fellers, Padgetts, Travises...
...heroic in composition as a Beethoven symphony, as knotty in detail as differential calculus. It is a task for poetic imagination far grander than Tennyson's in Locksley Hall, which 100 years ago "saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. . . ." And it is an even greater practical task. But the argosies are being planned. The Army says that by the end of this summer cargo cartage by air will be the biggest single development in the war effort...