Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sound travels through air 1088 feet per second. At about ten minutes past six one evening last week the people of Basel, Switzerland heard a dull and distant rumble. It might have been thunder, but the sky was clear. A minute and a half later the same sound reached Cologne, Germany, 250 miles to the north. Between 6:00 and 6:15 that dreadful roar echoed the entire length of the upper Rhine, and had been heard in five countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland. It marked the death of 62 people, injury to over 1,000, total destruction...
...Santa Cruz province last week the sky darkened with the smoke of dozens of fires and the air was heavy with a dreadful stench. Down the dusty roads moved interminable flocks of sheep bleating mournfully, to converge in great corrals. In the corrals stood gauchos, their flapping diaper-like chiripa about their legs, swinging pole axes. Each time a sheep fell other gauchos were ready to pile the carcasses on the crackling, reeking bonfires. Thus Santa Cruz sheep ranchers wilfully destroyed 60,000 fine sheep for which they could find no markets...
...Angeles, Parachute Jumper E. S. ("Spud") Manning challenged Jumper Harold ("Bud") Brandon to a contest to see who could drop nearer the earth before opening his chute. Plummeting from the sky, Jumper Brandon pulled his ripcord at 100 ft. altitude, won the match, was dashed to death upon the ground...
...World-Idea and a style of tortured courage. Never did one man, and a lone Scotchman, strive to embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken but yet so glorious in his failure as brave as splendid, as startling as a Norse god in his twilight. "Past and Present," one of the fifty volumes left behind by this man whose cardinal virtue...
...Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from the sky. Rounding the Horn, the U. S. Scouting force encounters two enemy submarines in the Straits of Magellan, losing two light vessels...