Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have traveled according to schedule, a party of Swarthmore College scientists and their wives have reached Benkulen, in the Dutch East Indian island-continent of Sumatra. The wives are adapting themselves to the comforts of a miserable hill-perched village, while the scientists are setting up sky-scouring 'scopes. Nearby, anchored in the blaze of ocean, is the naval transport, Chaumont, nest of balloons, dirigibles, airplanes. Both the Swarthmore men and the U. S. Navy men are preparing for three weird minutes on Jan. 14, when the sun will be blackened, the earth move to the dance...
...Wilbur--"Sky High", on January...
Thomas N. Dysart, President of the Association, scored the "blue-sky" laws, which attempt to save the ignorant stock buyer from the clutches of unscrupulous dealers. He said that in actual practice these laws, by complicating sales, hamper the flotation of high-grade stocks...
...down a field in Birmingham to win its seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that ended the season...
Next day Ignacio Zuloaga's portrait of Paderewski (including a sky of Zuloaga mauve, a grand piano, the eagle of Poland, and some law books on a stool) was exhibited at the Reinhardt Galleries. Mrs. Paderewski inspected it, apologizing for the absence of her husband. He had bruised his finger in the recital, she explained, and was confined to his apartment under the care of a physician...