Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Journey. Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris- the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy...
...fact somewhere in the vicinity of 9 o'clock, to attend them makes it necessary to be an early riser. And here we strike a definite snag. The most important requisite to an early rising is fine weather. The urge to lie abed is considerably overcome by an overcast sky...
...deduced that it is not only from those athletically inclined that prayers for a beaming sun, a dry sod or a smooth river surge forth, but equally from those to whom a flash of sunlight against closed lid means a 9 o'clock achieved, whereas a cloudy sky means rest undisturbed until much later hours...
...house in Valdemosa he lived with George Sand. She wrote: "It is poetry, it is solitude, it is everything that is most enchanting under the sky; and what sky! what country! We are in a dream of happiness." Chopin wrote: "The three most celebrated doctors of the island came together for a consultation. One sniffed . . . another tapped . . . the third listened while I expectorated. They treated me like an animal, and the first said I would die, the second said I was about to die, the third said I was already dead. But I go on living as I have always...
...human voice has bridged the sea, and aircraft ride the sky with some degree of safety. But all is not conquered yet, and it is such incidents as this latest flight which show unsuccess. With all the encroachments of science on the domains of sea and sky, that man still has need of triple bronze who, like the two lost flyers, or like Chamberlin and Bertrand, who are preparing their own trans-Atlantic trip, will venture against the perennial foes...