Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twilight comes to mend All the fantastic day's caprice...
...frantically biting his captors' hands. A salesgirl fainted. Some 500 Negro customers, thrown into a panic by the commotion, began upsetting counters of goods, yelling, breaking things. An Irish policeman went in, saw he could not quell the hysterical confusion singlehanded, sent for emergency reserves. It was almost twilight before the police had driven the disturbers from the debris-strewn store...
...same day that the Varsity baseball team completed plans for a schedule that will include three twilight games, hopes for the approaching season took a server jolt when Dick Walsh, one of the most promising pitchers on the squad, was invalided out for the next month by breaking his foot during practice yesterday...
When the team starts in its schedule it will, for the first time in history, be slated to play three of its game at 5 o'clock or later. All of these twilight games will be mid-week affairs and the late hour is especially designed to make it possible for graduates of come over and see the team in action. On this basis Providence will be played at 5.30 o'clock on May 8, Columbia at 5 o'clock on May 15, and Holy Cross at 5.30 o'clock on June...
...king was, of course, the development of an overseas empire. It mattered little to Leopold that the world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium, a buffer state, was in no position to carve out a dominion in Africa. Leopold worked well in twilight zones; he knew how to make weakness into strength when he had strong neighbors who were jealous of each other. In the end he possessed himself of the Congo because Bismarck did not want France to get it and because Britain thought Belgium would be a lesser evil in the middle...