Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There still remain things to be done. The boat race must be rowed today and the baseball game must be played tomorrow. The sky has been searched with powerful telescopes but not a cloud has been seen to break the viciously brazen arch of the heavens. Yet even if the sun continues its merciless glare and the asphalt becomes a sea of tar, the shadows of Harvard rooters will throng to the arenas of sport to cheer on their teoms. . . . "The rest is silence...
Stormy weather was also responsible for the destruction of the Army Dirigible TCI, a 200,000 cubic foot airship, known as the " Pullman of the Sky" because of its wonderful construction and comfortably enclosed cabin. After a 14-hour night trip in terrible weather from Scott Field, Ill., to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, during which the rudder was out of commission for two hours, the dirigible was moored in apparent safety−only to be set on fire by a flash of lightning! Sergeant Harry Barnes of the Air Service and A. C. Maranville of the Goodyear Rubber Company, builders...
...Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, American tennis ace, received another setback when she fell before the brilliant attack of Miss Kathleen Mc-Kane, England's first ranking player, in the finals of the Middlesex tournament. The only relieving ray in Mrs. Mallory's sky was her defeat of Mrs. Beamish earlier in the play...
Scope of the Industry. In other words, it costs too much to build. That is the discovery of the day and everybody is interested except the picturesque minority whose only roof is the starry sky...
...specially constructed cameras were made,--the diameter of the lens being five inches and the focal length 15 feet. These cameras had refracting lenses and were pointed directly at the point in the sky where the eclipse would occur. This avoided any distortions due to expanding and contracting mirrors. The photographic plates were of plate glass and were 17 inches square. The temperate climate of Australia further facilitated matters...