Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate horizon is like a black cloud with a silver lining. There is a rough stretch ahead come Saturday morning and its exam, but a dance in the afternoon and a picnic Sunday should do much toward cheering us up. We have developed a great respect for the Navy's ability to "plot and plan" with an eye of our amusement as well as our education. Thus far we have more than broken eyes...
...Horizon after horizon of hills fell away for plane after plane and the tents grew small. The group orbited round & round, forming up, and as they did so another huge group fell in, and others too, and over them all the fighters nervously ranged back and forth. Finally the roar peeled off across the sky toward Messina...
...Just Curious." Seattle-born Dr. Good drifted into his sailboat practices because "I guess I am just curious about what's on the other side of the horizon." After his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Dental School he went back home and, in 1909, with four friends and five pairs of dental forceps, sailed for Alaska in a 21-foot boat called The Kid. The Gold Rush was on and the boys did a fine business. Dr. Good has been back every summer but three (when he went to see what Europe was like...
...reserves, buried notions of guilt, stupidities and intolerances that lost their power in the irregular hum of the bombers and the distant crump of gunfire. During the broken, hesitant confidences of night "from time to time, a sudden low flash of faintly green light would appear on the eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed and then abruptly, on some unseen order, vanished instantaneously, leaving an even deeper darkness. . . . Bright, large sparks occurred among the stars and vanished; they were bursting shells. . . ." When the Blitz was over, the village was spent, spiritually at its lowest...
...bright lights on the dark horizon. Things appear to be shaping up well for a Friday 16-1800 dance at Potter Auditorium next week. Half of us will be hosts to the brand new WAVES from 'cross the river, the other half to our brand new WIVES. So forget your report that day, but don't forget the dance. Watch this colyum for verification...