Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...
...Zodiacal high-sign of Virgo. Such a nicety of balance exists that, though celestial bodies remain undisturbed in their several classrooms, yet an isolated meteorite may drop into Dunster House of a Sunday afternoon, and now and then a Radcliffe shooting star leaves its trail in the night sky...
...bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms. He does landscapes of jagged tropical mountain ranges, coral-robed natives under tattered banana fronds, and the steel grey lattice work of cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored at quayside, her three bare poles and spars standing out against lowering storm clouds. For these and other canvases modest Artist Mouillot expects no fancy prices. They...
...sky of Rome has never been violated by anti-Fascist planes. I shall be the first, I said to myself. . . . My death, however undesired by me personally who have so many things to do, could but add to the success of my flight. All danger lies in my return flight. I shall not die before I have delivered my 400,000 leaflets and then they will be all the better recommended...
...Before the blue sky, before the white sun, before our fatherland, before the graves of our ancestors, we, faculty and students, solemnly swear as long as we live never to use anything made by Japanese. Should we break this oath, may Heaven and men kill...