Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what keen-eyed observer in the dawn of history first picked out Saturn as a planet, or heavenly wanderer, from the dizzying background of myriad fixed stars. Probably the first stargazers to leave a record of Saturn's appearance in different parts of the night sky were the Sumerians...
...sheer intellectual curiosity. Ptolemy, one of the greatest of the Greek astronomers, wanted nothing more than to explain the eccentric wanderings of the five known planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Why, for example, did Saturn seem at times to forge ahead of Jupiter in the sky, and at other times lag behind it? To fit this movement into the prevailing earth-centered view of his day, Ptolemy assembled meticulous records of planetary movements. In A.D. 140, he made a good guess about Saturn. Because of its slow pace, he deduced that it lay in the most distant...
...Sky's the Limit, Dyer...
Crimson captain Chuck Durst felt the despair, too. The senior defensive tackle had turned in another stellar performance, but he saw early-season prospects evaporating into the gray New Jersey sky. The Harvard assemblage that had marched down to West Point and won the war sprinted out to a 4-0 start and guarded high hopes for an Ivy crown seemed all but eliminated...
...Look around...leaves are brown..and the sky is a hazy shade of winter." --Simon and Garfunkel...