Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that I was towed into the sky by an airplane, which was not true. I was launched by an engine-driven winch mounted on a truck (designed and built by E. Paul du Pont Jr.) winding in 4,000 ft. of ⅜in. manila rope spread across the airport. This enabled me to climb to 800 ft. above the ground before dropping the rope...
This cluster may be one of the exceedingly few objects known to lie between the galaxies. It is located six degrees from the South Pole of the sky in the constellation of Menss...
...agrarian soldiers, members of the private army of San Luis Potosí's General Saturnine Cedillo. Soon 22 agrarians lay dead, 15 wounded and 80 more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast fighting planes, zoomed over the Potosi airfield where President Cardenas had established his headquarters at Vista Hermosa, dumped four ineffective 25-lb. bombs and high-tailed it back to his secret air station in the hills...
Dark clouds came over the elms in the middle of the program, distracting attention from "Tarantella" by Randall Thompson '20, as spectators cast apprehensive eyes toward the sky...
Back on his lookout, Vag lifted his eyes above the forest to the sky-line of distant peaks, in the high back--country. Here was the grandest sight of all. Against a violet, cloudless sky they reared in mighty heaps--some smooth and rolling, others leaping up in jagged swoops to abrupt pin-points. Their naked reds and greys were broken by blue-white patches of glaciers, slowly slipping down their inaccessible ravines. Vag could imagine the icy wind currents which ever-lastingly moaned along down these ravines...