Word: orb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight. (I was steering a westerly course.) I looked up at the mainsail. What a shock! It had turned from white to black. An optical illusion, of course. The sky, too, had turned black. Another glance at the sinking sun, and while I was looking, the bright orange orb turned to green. Then no matter where or how long I looked in other directions, whether I shut my eyes or opened them, I saw nothing but a bright green disk. Of the sails, the boat, the compass or the water I saw nothing...
...according to Mayor Walker, so sick indeed that he has had to go to California. There under the shade of the dated palm he will take his ease and contemplate the stars, wondering whether it wouldn't be advisable to hitch his wagon to another and less tarnished orb...