Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME has recently announced that it will limit itself to 80 pages until 1931; thereafter I suppose "the sky will be the limit" to advertising. I am one of those who is overfed with advertising and have cancelled my subscription to a number of magazines and publications which force advertising into the reading pages and insist that the reader must take this meretricious hash, whether he wants to or not. I have already written once before protesting against what I consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force...
Three times the airplane dragged the "sleeve" target, at the end of a 2,000 ft. line, across the sky. Once it was not fired upon because both ship and target were too close to the sun. Once only two guns of the battery had firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted...
...turn vaporize the water which would operate a steam turbine. The turbine would operate an electric generator. Efficiency of such a sun engine would be 50% of the sun energy fused.* Professor Goddard calculates that such an engine would produce 30 h.p. while operated under a clear sky between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., when sunlight is strongest in the U. S. If storage batteries were used, the owner could get an average of 4 h.p. per hour day & night, all year around...
...Pronounced Maud-ruh-geh-yehv-sky, shortened to Mode-geh-ski when Mme. Modrze-jewska took out her U. S. naturalization papers...
Before leaving the assembly to march back to the Cathedral under a rainbow-spanned sky. the reunited church listened respectfully to His Grace the Duke of York, Lord High Commissioner of the new church who gave "full assurance of His Majesty's interest in and love for the Church of Scotland . . . and of his determination to uphold the cause of Presbyterian government in Scotland...