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Word: skies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstration to the tune of 49-5, and rejected the Ludlow amendment, 40-24. These were points five and six respectively. They expressed their opposition to a withdrawal of troops in China, point four. and supported the third plank providing for abolition of the M-day and of the sky-rocketing military budget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSU SUPPORTS ACTIVE PEACE POLICY IN VOTE | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

...Cannon," shown in a fine impression. Remarkable in every way, it stands as the first pure landscape print, as an achievement in panoramic composition, as his last etching. It is all in line, individual strokes that build up the texture of the earth, even the tone of the sky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/15/1938 | See Source »

Already well-established as a highway, automobile-equipment and racing centre, Indianapolis last week reached for the sky-and apparently got quite a piece of it. Aware that the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce conducts its all-important aircraft tests here, there & everywhere, Indianapolis' Mayor Walter C. Boetcher and Airport Manager Nish Dienhart descended on Washington, grandly offered the north-west 400 acres of their new 974-acre, $1,500,000 municipal airport to the B. A. C. as a free gift from a great-hearted city. Safely inland in case of war, less than eight miles from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sky Centre | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot."-As You Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing in life is freedom. Freedom to get out under the blue sky ... to look up at the stars at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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