Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good-humored General Andrews' remarks were justifiable on several counts. All along the middle and upper Atlantic Seaboard there were soldiers in the sky, playing war in the first full maneuvers staged alone by General Headquarters Air Force. Relations between the air service and the Army at large were better than at any time since 1935, when GHQ A. F. was established as a compromise between those who wanted an entirely separate air force and those who wanted to keep the Army's wings tied securely to the ground command. But the entente was not sufficiently strong...
...Sky Soldiers. Planes are no good without good men. To train its flying men, U. S. Army Air Corps has invested $16,833,733.50 in Randolph Field at San Antonio, Tex. On Randolph's 1,900-acre main field and six auxiliary fields, overworked instructors are currently schooling the unprecedented total of 440 cadets, 93 student officers, nine National Guard officers. If academic mortality holds up, about half of these will fail, 7% of the graduates eventually will receive Regular Army commissions. Remainder will put in some time at Army pay, go into reserve, await the next...
...many colors as Joseph's coat, and a pair of dirty sncakers, he whittled lazily, contentedly, at a splinter of pine he'd found among the odds and ends at the end of the pier. Whittling, dangling his legs, he fitted and blended into the picture of the sky and the marine yard and the dark blue water...
...vigil among the books in the tombs, secretaries, to some dean--you don't know which,--but you've see them in University Hall--Radcliffe and debutantes on the loose--such is the group that gathers round the steps of Widener to hear the Glee Club under the evening sky...
...Ralph Connor, became a novelist almost by accident. He wrote a story for a Canadian religious magazine, cut it up into three sections, kept adding chapters until it was long enough to be published as a novel, Black Rock. It was an immediate success, and with its successors. The Sky Pilot and The Man from Glengarry, sold about 5,000,000 copies. Connor kept on preaching, became a political figure, was a leading Canadian anti-Fascist until his death last year...