Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Camille Flammarion self-admittedly lives more in the heavens than on the earth. Henri Poincare, rather of ex-Premier Poincare, the greatest French mathematician since Pascal, once said that Flammarion was a poet whose gifts enabled him " to describe the sky so as to make people who did not know it love it." Perhaps it was this combination of poet and astronomer that made M. Flammarion write Haunted Houses. The appeal of astral bodies is, after all, only faintly removed from that of the psychic world. The book is disappointing from a scientific point of view; but from that...
Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatsoever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate...
This year, throughout France, the usual delirious festivities were held. At Paris the people danced upon the pavements and at night the sky was lit with fireworks...
...will be 5,279,000,000. At the main lighting stations (Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha, North Platte, Cheyenne) the towers will carry electric light beacons of 500,000,000 candle power visible for 150 miles, set slightly above the horizon to meet the eye of the pilot in the sky, and flashing 'round in a circle three times a minute. Incandescent acetylene lights of 5,000,000 candle power will flash at intermediate points, 22 miles apart and every field will also have all obstacles illuminated, floodlights for the actual landing, and illuminated wind vanes. The planes themselves will...
...when he left the ship, or whither he was heading. But he heard the parachute snap open and knew well that he would land somewhere. Edward A. Wuichet of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, walking below in the summer darkness was startled to hear a voice from the sky say: "Hello below ? Hey, down there?" The most peculiar conversation passed in the dark till the aviator landed on a 100-foot cliff, with scarcely a bump. When his plane came down in a crash it was immediately enveloped in flames. Crowds stood about in morbid curosity and horrified anxiety, helpless...