Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot banked wildly to avoid it, but the radio-beam mechanism had evidently been knocked out of kilter, for the bomb swung gracefully around and again chased the aircraft. When last seen, the bomber was hightailing over the horizon, its rocket bomb hot after...
Those lines-"limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child who ever stole out of bounds to see for himself what was over the horizon"-have the Beatrix Potter touch themselves...
...island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered under the impact of bomb upon bursting bomb and presently the screech and clump of shells added to the din and terror. Out of sight, over the horizon, surface ships had joined the carriers and were bringing the little men's islands under naval gunfire. Long awaited, long expected, the U.S. attack on the Marshalls was developing (Tokyo hinted that U.S. forces had landed at some points...
...Making Money." Light was just sneaking over the horizon; a rooster crowed overhead. Toffey was radio-talking to the regimental commander, Lieut. Colonel Ashton Manhart, when a spatter of machine-gun and rifle fire broke out. "We're starting to make some money now," calmly said Toffey over the radio...
...most important new invention is "trimetrogon" photography. This enables a flyer to photograph the ground below from horizon to horizon. The equipment consists of three cameras with wide-angle lenses, one pointing straight down and one obliquely to each side. By means of triangulation and ingenious translating devices, distortions resulting from the oblique angles are corrected in the final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force...