Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Landing. Sicily lay below, bathed in light from a crescent moon. Bombing and diversionary flights had prepared the way. "The flak was some, not so much," said Photographer Capa. The formation came over its objective. Inside the plane the red light winked...
Beyond the Moon. The U.S. had not always seen the supreme importance of the 60-odd mile St. Mary's River connecting Lakes Superior and Huron, and the need for a canal around the three-quarter-mile white water rapids. The first canal and a tiny, 39-foot-long lock were dug in 1797 by the North West Fur Co. to steal a march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan...
...Corp. workers. The Brewster workers thought their president did well. Brewster stockholders are also pleased with Riebel's performance. At the annual meeting, a stockholder moved a vote of confidence in present Brewster management. The chorus of "ayes" was the first time in many a bomber's moon there has been enough confidence in Brewster to shout...
Rossby agrees with Professor Parr that no one knows much about weather; meteorologists still have no precise idea, for example, why some clouds drop rain and others do not. But Carl Rossby, a moon faced, jolly Swede, has turned up many another useful fact about weather since he arrived in the U.S. and went to work for the Weather Bureau...
...nearly full moon lustered the magnolias blooming along the University of Virginia's esplanade. The air was heavy with honeysuckle. When the commencement german* ended, Virginia men and their young ladies thought of the traditional 20-mile drive to Afton Gap to see the sun rise. But there...