Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like an ever-lengthening pendulum. Ingeniously averting the dread "inverted spin" Williams landed, gave to the Navy his valuable findings on the mastery of inverted flight to promote safety...
Rainbow "R." First of the new "R" class of submarines now being built to replace 36 British subs which will become obsolete in 1932, is the Rainbow of 1,475 tons. With a real rainbow shimmering in the British sky last week, the dingy grey Rainbow was launched at Chatham. "Blue Water." Offers by the U. S. Battle Monuments Commission to erect beside the Thames a world War memorial to the U. S. Navy were favorably debated by the London County Council last week, but sharply criticized by the Admiralty's so called "Blue Water School...
...they invariably do, continuing on to Transjordania, where last week 25,000 natives were busy under British officers trying to exterminate them. One of the largest swarms which ever crossed the Red Sea, that of 1889, had an estimated area of 2,000 square miles, darkened the sky for days...
Though they were indoors, they beheld the strange gyrations of the sky. Though it was but 3 p. m. they saw the sun go down, Venus, the evening star, appear. It was the opening performance of the country's first planetarium. A planetarium is a complex instrument for reproducing on an elaborate scale the motions of the 5,400 stars visible to man, and the planets of the solar system. It is a simple matter to note the motion of the moon and sun because they are large, travel rapidly relative to man. But the stars are so deliberate...
With the advent of electric lights which brighten man's night so that he is unable to see the sky, lay interest in astronomy has dwindled. The most lowly, ignorant shepherd in Christ's time knew more astronomy than any one of a thousand enlightened moderns...