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Word: twilights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twilight was fast vanishing but it was still light enough to see hills, peaks, and valleys around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...When twilight fell on the People's Game of 1939, most football fans agreed that it was not Irish luck but heads-up football that has made this gear's Notre Dame machine one of the few undefeated, untied teams in the country. Except for Notre Dame's bigger & better backs (so many and so good that none hogs the spotlight), the margin of difference last week between the West Pointers and the South Benders was slight. But the Irish were quicker on the uptake. When an Army back fumbled in the second quarter, Notre Dame recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big One | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...article follows the lines of his latest book, "Twilight of Mankind," which sets forth his thesis that man is declining. While writing for the Associated Press, Professor Hooton made the statement, "The masters of our destiny are too wise to conduct a war on the lines I have laid down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Plans War to Benefit Mankind Which Would Be Fought by Misfits | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...Committee will not find it easy at first to free itself of the difficulties regarding eligibility, something which the respective athletic associations are now able to do if only from long practice. There will be twilight grounds between eligibility and ineligibility which will prove difficult to decide due to inexperience. This, however, is the length to which the three Universities must go to prove their amateur standing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR AMATEUR ATHLETES | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...sincere devotion to the Magyar people. Karl's efforts were doomed to frustration from the outset. Out of the wretched peace at Versailles came a new doctrine of brute force. Mercifully he did not live to see Vienna fall an easy prey to a remilitarized Prussia. Even as twilight descended upon the House of Hapsburg, darkness was once more beginning to fall all over Europe...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

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