Search Details

Word: sky (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Looking at a photograph of the sky made five days ago, Harvard scientists were able to spot the comet in its orbit. The photograph was made as part of the daily routine of the Observatory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ASTRONOMERS SPOT NEW COMET IN PHOTOGRAPH | 5/6/1930 | See Source »

While countless people throughout the, belt of the eclipse were craning their necks to the sky from behind pieces of smoked glass, eight observers at the Harvard, Observatory at Concord Avenue were recording the actual facts with a mass of figures and photographic plates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD OBSERVERS GATHER FACTS ABOUT ECLIPSE OF SUN | 4/29/1930 | See Source »

...clover now. It's before your eyes at this moment, in the present. But you don't know yet what's around the bend in the stream there ahead of you . . . you can't see them until the future. . . . But I'm in the sky above you in a plane. I can see all at once the trees . . . the field of clover and what's waiting for you, around the bend ahead! . . So the past, present and future of the man in the boat are all one to the man in the plane. Doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Times? | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...terrace, gold walls against a blue curtain of sky, slightly resembles the island on which Shakespeare's less readily perplexed but equally worldly expatriates of The Tempest encountered magic after storm. Owned by a physicist named Stephen Field, it is the scene of a party given by his daughter Ann to six friends. They are: Pat Farley, with whom Ann is in love; Tom Ames and his wife, Hope, who loves their children; Norman Rose; Alice Kendall, who loves Rose; and Lily Malone, an actress whose acid witticisms to her companions are in the best manner of earlier Barry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Where spouting pillars spoor the evening sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bridge-Builder | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Previous | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | Next