Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reeking. A soldier plucks twenty dollars' worth of purple orchids (New York quotation) and sticks them in the band of his sombrero. Troops of screaming monkeys swing past, stopping occasionally to grimace at us. From the depths of the forest, mountain lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully, up to their bellies...
...blacks were the first to revolt. A man named Boukmann gathered his people in a forest, told them that the King of France had proclaimed three holidays every week for slaves, that an army was coming from France to make their masters obey. There was thunder in the sky above the woods, ". . . and, as if born of the darkness and storm, a giant Negress appeared in the midst of the crowded open space. A long knife gleamed wet in her upraised right hand, her naked body was streaked with rain." In August of 1793 Boukmann's rebellion started...
...studies to be assisted by the Foundation during the coming year is that of Dr. W. G. Luyten G. '24, assistant professor of Astronomy in the University. Dr. Luyten will go to Mazelspoort, South Africa, with the aim of taking a large number of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope in the Harvard Observatory there. His object will be to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1906, to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...globe on which should be represented, "with exactitude," the constellations of the stars. Silversmiths made the "undignified fanatic" his globe. It was about twelve inches in diameter; its surface was carved with those bizarre and threatening shapes with which the ancients first identified the golden processionals of the sky. No celestial beast was missing; goat, unicorn, fish, lion, hurrying crab crowds its shining convexity. After the death of the astronomer, his globe became famous in the country that had laughed at its inventor. A succession of noble families enjoyed its possession; it was spoken of as "the great astronomical ball...
...swimming pool will probably begin in the late spring or early summer on or near the site of the present Freshman Athletic Building, which will be moved. The pool will be about 75 feet long by 60 feet wide and will receive illumination directly through a large sky light...