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Word: skies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereupon, all the afternoon I to tandem in the country; and I did hear a robin and see a crocus and a beautiful day it was. By and by out of the clear sky--tells me Wellesley College girls are giving up their desserts and the price thereof to be given to flood relief. So we to get a chocolate and thence took to talking about the "Veterans of Future Wars"; and that they one day will spill blood on foreign soil and be the fathers of many children; and I still think this is mighty fine arguing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1936 | See Source »

...morning last week scientists, foremen and loyal workmen at Corning (N. Y.) Glass Works looked anxiously up at a grey, wintry sky, hoped the threat of snow would not materialize, for momentous and delicate doings were on foot. The snow held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Glass Goes West | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...compare the Oath Bill to a law compelling him to be faithful to his wife (in which case he wouldn't, says he)! Another talks of free love; another says the bill is like a law compelling his heart "to leap up at a rainbow in the sky"; another asks the American Legion how it would like all its members required to be examined for communicable diseases! To which there were many objections and many cheers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

Three giant star-dust "wedding rings" in the Milky Way, in the form of planetary nebulae, probably hundreds of times larger than the solar system, have been discovered in the southern sky by Mrs. Muriel M. Seyfert, Research Assistant of the Observatory staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ASTRONOMER SPOTS MILKY WAY "WEDDING RINGS" | 3/19/1936 | See Source »

Strictly in the new technique for screen operettas, the plot is less a series of music cues than an ornamental bubble tossed on the Hood of song issuing from Kiepura and Swarthout. Best ballads: A Song Kissed the Sky, I Need to Say I Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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