Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These orders, effective Wednesday, Nov. 25, upped the tariff on several hundred articles (all of interest to U. S. exporters have been enumerated) not by 100% as the Board of Trade was entitled to do, but by 50%. In Washington the sky-high altitude of the present U. S. tariff, with ad valorem duties running up to 80% and exceeding 50% in most cases, was admitted last week to be so great that further upping in ''retaliation'' against Britain would be impracticable. What many a Runciman in the Empire hopes is that temporary British tariffs will...
Delegates will pay $2 apiece to attend a banquet in Eliot House and hear a speech on "Making Both Ends Meet Under the Present Conditions." Meanwhile, outdoors, the great searchlights on Harvard's four house-towers will light the sky. Bright prismatic beams will cheer the unemployed and guide stray geese going South...
...under a lee shore. The sun was sinking. To my surprise the glare on the water became unbearable to my sight. (I was steering a westerly course.) I looked up at the mainsail. What a shock! It had turned from white to black. An optical illusion, of course. The sky, too, had turned black. Another glance at the sinking sun, and while I was looking, the bright orange orb turned to green. Then no matter where or how long I looked in other directions, whether I shut my eyes or opened them, I saw nothing but a bright green disk...
...knot wind blew on the starboard quarter of a Pan American Airways flying boat on the regular Cristobal-Miami run one day last week. The crew and two passengers were thankful to be up in the gusty sky instead of down on the surface of the Caribbean which still writhed and tossed from a whipping by a three-day gale. About 100 mi. short of Barranquilla, Colombia, first stop on the plane's northering flight via Jamaica, Pilot Frank Ormsbee saw something that made him nose rapidly down toward the water...
...combining the country of which he talks with the characters about which the authors have written. The result is that Tess lives her tragic life before you, and you pause with Mr. Hersey to watch the straggler on the read at twilight while the heath embrowns itself against the sky...