Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clouds. In the shining sky at Demcratic headquarters in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, there were still a few dark clouds. Lowest and blackest was the money cloud. With a deficit hanging over, Democratic credit was none too good. Twenty-five-thousand-dollar contributions like Mr. Raskob's and Vincent Astor's were few & far between. The idea of small gifts from "forgotten men" had not proved a success. One week lately it was all headquarters could do to meet its $5,000 payroll. The campaign was largely being financed on more borrowed money and the hope...
...Kimball, considered America's leading radiation meteorologist, will study the effect of changes in the sun on weather and climate. The recent eclipse provided much data for special studies of solar and sky radiation, which he will complete this year at Harvard. Dr. Kimball is president of the American Meteorological Society, and has received international recognition for his contributions to the science of solar radiation...
...equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe four years ago (TIME, Sept. 24, 1928). They gathered in clusters, looking southeast. A few boarded up their windows. Others did 'nothing until police began herding them into their least flimsy churches and schoolhouses...
...peered and chuckled. Still cocky, Ruth held up two fingers. The next pitch broke over the corner of the plate. Ruth swung at it. There was a crack. Centerfielder Johnny Moore started to run; then he stood still and watched the ball, a dwindling white spot against the blue sky, clear the ware fence and drop 436 ft. from the plate, one of the longest homeruns on record. Babe Ruth shambled slowly around the bases, shaking his fat shoulders and making remarks of mockery to each infielder as he passed. In the uproar, no one was paying much attention...
...been a warm July day, and the red moon was full as it sank lower in the western sky. The light gleamed almost too perfectly over the sinking tide, showing dimly the outlines of the hills on the mainland; far across the bay lights gleamed on a yacht, and there was a lightly-heard music from the deck where guests of a very rich sinner were dancing. There were only two figures on the great rocks by the beach, watching the silent panorama of moon and stars, listening to the waltzes from the distant craft. They were completely alone...