Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courthouse in the sky...
...there more crows or more planes in the sky...
...believe that a shudder would go through the sky if our whole ant heap were kerosened. But then, it might-in short, my only belief is that I know nothing about...
Colder & Colder & Colder. Trees, which gleamed like great crystal chandeliers and creaked like windmills, broke down by the thousands under their enormous loads of ice. Sagging power and telephone lines were carried away by crashing limbs. In hundreds of towns the night sky was lit by the weird blue flash and flare of high-voltage electricity. Lights went out, telephones went dead and electrically operated oil burners stopped running. Harassed storekeepers were deluged with demands for candles and axes...
...Bureau of Standards has to be more or less practical with taxpayers' money; the practical project at the moment is a study of how solar waves affect radio transmission on the earth.) But Reber also intends to refine his own homemade apparatus and search the sky for more mysterious "somethings." Perhaps, in time, he can figure out what-and why-they...