Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world). In war-minded France, the cry was "C'est la guerre!" In Austria and elsewhere in Europe, kneeling peasants gibbered prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor Castle was on fire, called the Windsor Fire Department. European telephone exchanges generally were jammed...
Many were the Leviathans final indignities. The two masts that once reached for the sky were bobbed 78 ft. to fit them under the Firth of Forth Bridge's 150-ft. arch. Ten feet were lopped off each of her three funnels-the debris, good scrap, lashed to the deck for the voyage. While reporters tramped through three years of dust on a last inspection trip, careless blacksmiths started a small fire. Someone had recently stolen two big paintings. Then her imported seamen began negotiating for the same wage as the U. S. crew, delayed her last departure from...
SHIPS IN THE SKY-Gunnar Gunnars-son-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). Although Iceland is known to Europeans for the lively ferment of its modern literary movement, few modern Icelandic novelists have been translated into English. In Europe, 49-year-old Gunnar Gunnarsson, author of 30-odd books and plays, ranks with Scandinavian writers of the calibre of Selma Lagerlöf. Ships in the Sky is considered his major work. A long, simply written, autobiographical novel, it tells the story of a redheaded, imaginative peasant boy named Uggi Greipsson. Its distinguishing qualities are an unforced humor combined with uninhibited sentiment, clear...
...aurora borealis of unusual brilliance was noticeable in the sky last night, beginning about 7:30 o'clock...
...done by the company itself) grounded Northwest Airlines' eight new Lockheed 14 H transports, fastest in the world. One had crashed with ten people in Montana fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 17). From the 1931 order the Fokker plant never recovered; Fokker airplanes disappeared from the U. S. sky...