Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven hours later, in the night sky over Alabama, Joe Connolly experienced some-thing an earlier age would have called a miraculous sign of approval for his good works and words...
North Carolina in October is a land of quiet towns, paved roads busy with the traffic of harvest time, fields bright with yellow bitterweed, people warmed and sleepy in the last hot suns of fall. Last week the land, the people and the sky of a large part of North Carolina were elements in a Problem. The U.S. Army was at one of its periodic peacetime wars, and civilians for once were principals...
...Army's 800,000,000 candlepower searchlights are the world's most powerful. Last week 26 of them, needling the sky above Fort Bragg, seldom found a bomber. Sometimes moonlight diffused the searchlight rays, or clouds blocked them. At dawn, most difficult time of all for ground gunners, searchlights were of no use whatever...
...third prize ($500), seemed a stiff bit of social consciousness greatly damaged by the fumbling inclusion of Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried a spacious sense of foaming ocean...
...Howe are ya Phelan today, pretty Gross?" "No nifty. I got a Highmark on my exam and look at the weather. Not a MacLeod in the sky . . . . though Sommers gone it's a regular May Daye, and I Lovett...