Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observer Houghton got into the swing of Russian experimentation. Play was called The Iron Flood. Spectators were kept waiting in the theatre's foyer until suddenly two actors dressed like soldiers went tearing through the crowd carrying water buckets. There upon doors opened into an auditorium domed with sky blue cloth. At one end was a large earthen mound. On it was camped a detachment of Russian soldiers, their women and children. On two sides were seats. "We spent four hours with the Red Army in the field- that was all," recalls Observer Houghton. "The wounded dragged themselves across...
...eagle, he said, one day swooped down terrifyingly close as he was walking along a mountain road, and left his young mind imbued with a strange exaltation as it soared away into the sky. "The intense feeling of longing for something", stated the lecturer, "is one of the strongest insurances that the expression of one's thoughts will be forceful and sincere...
...During December 1934 . . . I dispatched a Bush Negro named Paje with two boys to the upper river. He returned in February of 1935 and stated that while at an Indian Village (name unknown), he was told of a white man who had come out of the sky, had both legs broken and was living in an Indian Village only three hours from where...
...suffering with yaws. . . . He told me that there was a white man on the Paloemeu River in the village of Piaiman, that he, Kapan, had seen him and that he was crippled, so that he could not walk, that he had come out of the sky, and he had seen his machine which was wrecked on a savanna and not on a mountain...
Later on in the evening comes the sky-scraping pole vault wherein Dubiel should pick off five points and may clear the 14-foot mark...