Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When love flamed in the Bethlehem sky...
With low-hanging stratus (i.e., solid layer) clouds, Project Cirrus was just as successful. Langmuir told how the planes had drawn Greek letters and "racetrack" patterns in stratus clouds by dropping small amounts of dry ice (see cut). Sometimes the cloud was dissipated so completely that blue sky showed through the gaps. Langmuir believes that dry ice can be used to clear clouds from over airports...
...Public Health told the Gerontological Society in Manhattan that a pilot is as old as his vision, or his "motor skill," or his general ability to adjust to the demands of his job. No exact age limit should be set for pilot retirement, McFarland said, but life in the sky certainly does not begin...
...hedge against his blue-sky antics, his cagey wife runs a boardinghouse. Thus, Chicken Every Sunday is crowded with a rich, hot-biscuits-&-gravy atmosphere and some folksy characters. When Dailey's last fling (the coppermine gamble) almost gets the whole crew thrown into the street, the moral emerges: How can a man be a failure if he makes a lot of friends, wins the love of his wife and children and even the respect of his boarders...
Holes in the sky, says the child...