Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picturing Professor Baker as a "Prophet without honor". Professor Baker announced his intention of resuming his work next fall, and all graduates and undergraduates were looking forward to a resumption of the "Workshop" at that time, when the announcement of his resignation came last night out of a clear sky...
...action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard in the matter of wit; but both his humour and his wit never suggest the smoking-room and the dinner-party, but rather the open sky and a prospect of shining hills. I think he has something of the peasant's obstinacy and is not altogether free from a certain obtuseness...
...From the sky...
...attempt to avenge the Harvard victory of last wear, the invading Princeton eleven will have the advantage of a dry field and a clear sky this afternoon, if the weather report as given out by the Blue Hill Observatory late last night is correct. The temperature is predicted to drop to about 50 degrees, and a strong north-west wind should blow across the Stadium, thus making the kicking conditions equal from either end of the field...
Solitary flight is lonely with nothing to break the monotony of blue sky and clear airs. News from England shows that light-plane builders recognize the need of sociability; and at a recent meet at Lympne, two-seater "chummy-fly-abouts" made their appearance for the first time. With a 30 horsepower engine, the curiously named Wee-Bee 1 made a speed of 70 m.p.h., with a mileage of 36 to the gallon, carrying a pilot and passenger of ordinary weight...