Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge, in a grey twilight, the Harvard crew, with better blade work and new weight, beat Cornell with Massachusetts Institute of Technology third...
...when the clash of mighty opposites is o'er, when the heroes of the day, tired, "but happy," have been carried from the field on the shoulders of frenzied alumni, a hush as of twilight will fall on the old locker building, and someone will say "Write not, like the Great Scorer, if they won, but how they played the Game...
...Tokyo, they saw a fat Japanese standing in a doorway, staring out into a twilight street where yellow children were playing a curious game. The next day, they were above China...
Just before Disraeli left the Prime Ministry in 1880 he struck definitely the tone of their correspondence thus: "Lord Beaconsfield, no longer in the sunset but in the twilight of existence, must encounter a life of anxiety and toil; but this, too, has its romance, when he remembers that he labors for the most gracious of beings...
...stopped walking at late twilight and went into the church. There were no lights on; no people were there to pray; the organ loft was empty. The tramp sat down and put his dirty finger on the keys, and there was music...