Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game is a twilight affair scheduled for 6 o'clock. A return encounter will be held at Holy Cross on Saturday...
...neat New Englandish lunch, Mr. Ford took his richest guest, Irénée du Pont (middle brother), away for a private conference. Pierre du Pont regaled his guests, practically every last man of whom would have liked a job with the Du Ponts, with a splendid twilight dinner in the ballroom of his gorgeous greenhouse. An organ recital soothed the diners, and colored lights playing on the estate's fountains added more blandishments. But when it came to examining Du Pont manufacturing processes, the visiting chemical engineers saw as little as Du Pont chemical engineers permitted them...
Five o'clock is neither afternoon nor evening. The game cannot be termed an afternoon game nor a twilight contest. The hour chosen, since the game lasts until 7 o'clock or after, completely occupies the dinner hour in the Houses...
...twilight affair, the game will start at 5.30 o'clock instead of an earlier hour. This is an experiment chiefly for the benefit of those members of the Harvard team and student spectators who would otherwise be kept away by Divisionals...
...fear neither death nor living so much when I know that this great beauty of mountain and sky and sea lies wrapped in eternal silence through unbroken spans of years-that across its dreaming face will be drawn veils of color, rose at dawn, gold at midday, blue at twilight, day and night, year after year, century following century...