Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant to a star. Now their latest radio bearing showed them 175 miles east of the Cape, when they had thought it only 75 miles...
...Wessen, plaudits for a TIME-worthy report. One U. S. airplane was lost in the sky show to which he refers. U. S. War Department reminiscence...
...antiaircraft artillerymen all credit for their accomplishments. But the fact remains that, pending the perfection and installation of multi-barreled machine guns, sound-detection and other defensive devices, the U. S. Navy's opinion is that defense for battleships against attack from the sky, must be in the sky, i. e. by airplanes launched from cruisers, battleships, carriers...
...Ethan Allen, Revolutionary irregular, led 83 soldiers, mostly Green Mountain Boys of his own recruiting, across Lake Champlain. On the way Allen and Benedict Arnold wrangled profanely as to who was to command. They landed under the Grenadiers' Battery at Fort Ticonderoga. As the clear sky reddened into the day the American troopers, drawn up in three ranks, marched up to the British fort's sally port. The red-coated sentinel's fusee missed fire. The invaders pushed headlong and shouting into the walled parade ground...
Orville Wright: Like his brother, a navigator, whose persistent faith and work gave to men highways in the sky, and the age of discovering new countries having passed, taught men to shorten to a quarter the spaces on the earth...