Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explainable events as "mysteries" or "miracles." Charles Fort, who died in 1932, made a career of it. For 26 years Fort puttered in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, collecting phenomena which "science cannot explain" (he had a special fondness for unusual objects falling from the sky). He insisted that the earth was surrounded by a gelatinous shell, in which the stars were holes. Rains of fish, frogs and "blood" (water containing reddish dust particles) were brought down to earth from the shell by "teleportation," a force that worked something like gravity, only faster...
...Fosterburg (pop. 250), Ill., had only half an hour's warning. Just after 6 o'clock in the morning, sunlight turned a sickly yellow and a warm wind blew. Then darkness fell] rain poured down in torrents, and a roar "like ten express trains" filled the sky. A Mrs. May Dingerson opened her,back door to investigate the awful noise. The door flew away. Then her front door flew open and all the windows burst. She felt as if her ears were full of water. Then everything went black. She woke, bleeding, in a pile of bricks...
...Miami, where the weather was fine, the lag in tourist business was blamed. An other reason was that the tumble in grain prices had knocked many a farmer out of the market. All over, customers were running out of money and could not afford the still sky-high prices...
...thematic-apperception test," in which the subject is asked for his reaction to certain pictures. Among the ten pictures used by S.R.I.: a boy, leaning on his chin, contemplating a violin and bow; a boy and a woman in conversation; a boy at a window looking up into the sky; a man on a rope...
...large, Nemo is an optimist: a heavy flood will bring forth a dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...