Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that "this is I"; But as he grows he gathers much And learns the use of "I" and "me". . . . Apparently we have arrived at a point where it is not necessary for the baby or anyone else to learn the difference between the nominative and accusative cases. ... Is this perhaps a Churchillian bit of undress in order to gain the approval of the masses? . . . Perhaps Churchill's "me" does even include...
...against the Sky. Against the vast arable U.S. earth and the vaster sky over it, one man might stand as an epitome of the task and the hopes which the hungry world has placed upon some six million U.S. farmers, the great mass of whom, like him, live between the Rocky and the Appalachian Mountains. He is Gustav Theodore Kuester (rhymes with Easter...
...bring close my lips And the blue sky quietly looks on. Though the apple says nothing, I know well how she feels. She is lovely-lovely little apple...
...year is especially ill-timed, coming at a moment when humane decency calls for a renewal of food rationing to help avert world famine. Without subsidies, food prices will rise, and farmers will hardly turn produce over to the UN at low prices when the sky is the limit on the home market...
...sky over New Mexico is immaculately blue. On May 8, that clear blue sky will be gashed by a dirty grey-white smoke trail. The first German-American V-2 rocket, a mongrel fabricated by U.S. engineers, Army ordnance men and German scientists from odds & ends of captured German V-2s, will be launched from the White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German...