Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Profiting by the mistakes of this expedition the Lick Observatory in California prepared for many months its expedition. W. W. Campbell was made director. The first action was that of photographing that region of the sky in which the sun would be three months later...
...airplane which traced smoke letters in the sky yesterday to advertise a familiar commodity was probably not operated by a college man. Such skywriting is a final flash of old advertising methods with which the educated man had little sympathy. A new advertising is developing, however, in which he finds an acceptable place, in which the cultured man will actually be more valuable than the paperhanger and the circus band...
...From the open window Harry Gray watched a white cloud mount slowly above the blue state roof of the opposing wing of Randolph Hall and climb slowly into the weak blue autumnal sky...
...shortly see a giant dirigible coursing through the sky, with a dozen small fighting airplanes suspended from it ready to fly off at a moment's notice. Lengthy studies of this problem by the Army Air Service culminated in success last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. A large ring was placed on the upper wing of an airplane and a hook of corresponding dimensions was hung from the passenger gondola of an airship. The airplane pilot regulated his speed till it was no greater than that of the dirigible and was picked up and carried along without...
Immediately after sundown any clear night there apppears in the southwestern sky near the horizon a star of the first magnitude and of the brilliancy of Aldebaran. This is Beta Ceti, formerly on the outermost reaches of the known stellar system, a second magnitude star of the constellation of the Whale. Eighty years ago it suddenly flared up to double its brightness, a fact that our astronomers have just learned (since Beta Ceti is 80 light-years away...