Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would still be only a pinhead in size and its nucleus 2,000 times smaller. So while you might distinguish the orbit, its planet [electron] and sun [nucleus] would still be nearly invisible. In other words, practically all of the hydrogen atom is apparently space . ." .as empty as the sky, almost as empty as a perfect vacuum. . . . Atoms begin to look like solar and planetary systems with different groups of positive and negative charges at their centres...
Only slight, however, was the Presidential disappointment. For in Her Majesty's stead he saw a flawless, exquisitely cut diamond, sparkling with a transparent, sky-blue light, hitherto unknown in precious stones. Weighing 136 carats, it is the largest cut diamond in the world, and its name is "Queen of Holland...
...pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of his period, would appear almost slight if mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince Baltasar Carlos, hangs in the Prado Gallery in Madrid...
...taken literally. As everyone knows, the sky is not blue during a thunderstorm...
Under stars that littered the night sky like the glowing ends of innumerable phantom cigarets, three young couples met, one evening last week, at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan...