Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peking. As if from the clear, blue sky, General Feng and his troops suddenly entered Peking. The gates of the city were closed behind them and the following proclamation was issued: "Feng Yu-hsiang does not want to make war, which is ruining the country and causing the loss of many lives. Feng has called a conference between the Government and the other side with a view of stopping the war. He is bringing his troops back to Peking for garrison duty and asks the people that order be preserved. Foreigners will be protected...
Literary reviews crowd the horizon. One sun sets as another rises. What of the three chief holders of the present sky: Books (issued as a Sunday supplement by The New York Herald Tribune), The Saturday Review (TIME'S own) and The Literary Review (issued as a Saturday supplement by The New York Evening Post) ? I read all three and consider it a necessary part of my education. All three have their merits...
...telescopes will be used at the new observatory. They are respectively one-inch and three-inch and are both equipped for photographic recording. This new station will thus enable the Harvard sky patrol, which has been maintained for forty years in Peru, to continue uninterrupted...
...burning leaves or breaking the ground on little farms in Jersey, on fields beside rutted lanes in Delaware where few travelers come, heard, one cool morning last week, a humming and a drumming in the sky, looked up, saw over their heads a great silver shape that flew south as the birds were flying, as the grey geese, the sleek ducks that leave their marshy beds and beat away with the frost at their backs. The Shenandoah it was, which had on that cool morning left its hangar at Lakehurst to start on the longest flight ever attempted...
...other Governments. His flying rating is suggested by the fact that he holds license No. 1 of the Aero Club of America and license No. 2 of the Aero Club of France. He is active today as head of the Curtiss Corporations at Garden City-sky-writing being one of his recent departures...