Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a record last month by landing the mail in New York 28 hr. ahead of the steamer (TIME, Sept. 21). The Bremen's mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted for a moment on Glace Bay Harbor to check position with a fishing boat; at 9 p. m. she put down on Sydney Harbor with ten minutes' fuel supply in her tanks...
...hundred years ago a man lay dying in Vienna. Without a storm rolled deep thunder around the city, laid jagged streaks of light against the back-ground of the sky. And there was a great wind that soughed in the eaves and pitched the rain against dirty windows. But for all the dying man knew of the storm, he heard it not, for he was deaf. It was enough to know that the gods were angry, that Beethoven was dying. He raised himself on his elbow and, in the glare of a spray of lightning, shook his first...
...poetry, never criticizes other people's, "wouldn't read in public for a million dollars." He loves to read detective stories, does not know whether he is a great poet or not but says he has never consciously injured anyone. Other books: The Man Against the Sky, Merlin, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, The Glory of the Nightingales (TIME, Sept...
Into a gusty sky which experts called "barely safe'' for speed flying, Flight Lieut. George H. Stainforth took off from the waters at Calshot one afternoon last week. His purpose: to beat his own record of 379.05 m. p. h. average for the 1.8-mi. j speed course, which he made in the Schneider Trophy Races last month (TIME, Sept. 21). His spidery seaplane was the same but the engine was new, specially built for this test, with an estimated life of perhaps an hour at top speed when it would develop 2,600 h. p. The fuel...
...newspapers as a possible member of the entourage there was no stopping her. Since her father speaks no English, she will be his interpreter. In Washington, Secretary Stimson beamed his approval of the visit, did not reveal the probable nature of the Hoover-Laval conversations but guessed that "the sky would be the limit." With visiting Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain two years ago (who also brought his daughter along), President Hoover was principally concerned with disarmament. The Laval visit should be an event second in importance to none so far during the Hoover Administration. Because their...