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...decline of New England was just as essential to the completeness of this legend. The twilight of authentic gods is grand rather than gloomy. The greatness of the New England mind was authentic and the best guarantee of its later revival. Wrote Critic Brooks: "The goldenrod rises again in its season, and the folk poem recovers its meaning when the heart of a nation, grown old, returns to its youth...
...Francis Friday Griffiths, chief of scientific investigations for the Oregon State Game Commission, last week announced success of a twilight sleep technique for steelheads. The fish are taken from the traps, dunked in a solution of two parts of ether to 100 parts of water. Inert after a minute or two, they are easily stripped with practically no loss of eggs or milt. Then they are returned to their normal water, are soon as sprightly as ever. Hatchery superintendents believe that ether anesthesia will enable them to work with smaller crews next spring...
Black rainy clouds hung low over Philadelphia; Sunday afternoon was one long twilight that deepened steadily into gloomy night. In the gathering dusk, over the city's brick-paved streets jounced cabs from the three-day-old airport, from the dismal cavern of old Broad Street Station. Packed in the cabs were thousands of men whose minds were as wind-tossed and gloomy as the night...
...whiff, they said, makes soldiers stagger and fall, their muscular coordination anesthetized as by "twilight sleep." Fuhrer Hitler last weekend personally handed the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...
...days must have dragged for King Haakon. Nights were now only twilight and almost every day fresh blankets of spring snow fell to impede the progress of Allied and Norse troops seeking to wrest Narvik from the stubborn clutch of some 3,500 Austrian ski troops under General Eduard ("The Bull") Dietl, entrenched on towering Rombak Heights southeast of the town. Through the snow swirls, shielded more than blinded, came steady streams of Nazi planes to drop food, munitions, more men to the beleaguered invaders. They revived and reinforced a second Nazi contingent on the north side of Rombak Fjord...