Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have brought reprisal bombing of Allied industries. The German anti-aircraft defense had not been tested, and neither had the Allied. The possible price in their own civilians' lives gave the Allies pause. So did their fear that not yet were they Germany's match in the sky...
Meteors falling at the rate of 400 a minute for an hour and a half may be visible in the western sky some time between sunset and midnight...
With luck, students may be able to witness a spectacular blaze of natural fireworks in the sky tonight or tomorrow night according to Fletcher Watson, Executive Secretary and Research Associate or the Blue Hills Observatory...
...Ayres stabbing a poilu in a shell hole, then trying to save him. But its conscientious producers tried to improve the masterpiece. Improvement No. 1: instead of opening with the mute, reproachful faces of dead soldiers, trooping past in an endless file of ghosts until they vanish in the sky, they began it with a historical newsreel, flashing back to the Kaiser reviewing goosestepping troops, the Lusitania sinking, etc. Improvement No. 2: a commentator to interrupt the picture at significant moments, ram home obvious points about peace...
...mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter sky. It is not difficult to see that Fiene is attempting to show the gradual degeneration of a human being into a walking piece of steel...