Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the passage in my Atlantic article which gave rise to your first statement is the sentence: "There is in the universe outside man, no spirituality, no regard for values, no friend in the sky." I do not think that any of us knows anything about the final mystery of the world, but if anyone pleases to call it God, I have no objection. The sentence quoted means that I do not think we have any reason anthropomorphically to attribute to it such human characteristics as spirituality, value-consciousness, or friendship...
...soldiers snapped and wheeled through a 90-minute review. A battery of 105-mm. guns barked a 17-gun salute. From a jeep the 52-year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then, joined by whooshing F80 jet fighters, they swept low over the grandstand for the final salute...
Harvard's astronomers are looking up in the sky, and for geologists are looking down in the ground. Both are looking for the same thing...
...sky over Berlin, the airlift planes still droned...
...constellation Cetus (the Whale), the twin stars will be known to astronomers as L 726-8 (L for Luyten, the figures to indicate position in the sky). Both stars are red and much cooler than the sun, which gives out 40,000 times as much light as one unit, 60,000 times as much as the other. The twins revolve around each other every 20 to 25 years, keeping about 275 million miles apart...