Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion piece, "Sky Giant," is an unconvincing yarn about a school for transport pilots run by army men. The picture shows Harry Carcy, as head of the school, working Richard Dix and Chester Morris 24 hours a day, completely ignoring differences between military and civilian flying, and disregarding nearly all the federal laws governing the latter. Joan Fontaine registers the correct emotions...
...Angeles last week celebrated the homecoming of Douglas Gorce Corrigan, who few months before left a workaday mechanic's job to flivver off into the sky, blarneyed his way to Dublin and back and became the most fabulous escapist of his time. Back down from the sky, he came, after a triumphal tour of 44 cheering cities, looking as modest as Lindbergh, when he stepped out of his little ship at Glendale airport...
...Advancement of Science, held in Cambridge, England, from August 17 to 23, Dr. Shapley presented a second paper on "The Nature of the Inner Metagalaxy." In this talk he reported the discovery by Harvard of a conspicuous irregularity in the distribution of galaxies, or island universes, in the southern sky. This discovery, he said, is of fundamental importance, for, although it does not prove the theory that the universe is expanding, it eliminates conflicting theories based on counts of galaxies...
...galaxies were studied in the Harvard survey, covering an are about 200,000,000 light years long at a distance of 13,000,000 light years from the earth. Dr. Shapley pointed out that the density here is twice as great as in some regions of the sky...
Bright enough to leave a long silvery reflection on a dark river is the monster planet Jupiter now shining in the southeastern sky. Three hundred times larger than the earth, containing more matter than all the other planets combined, Jupiter takes twelve years to complete its ponderous revolution around the sun. Far from the centre of the solar system, Jupiter receives little heat, has a small core of solid rock, surrounded by a frozen ocean, thousands of fathoms deep. Thick clouds hide from astronomers the furious storms that rack the planet, scarring its face with wide bands of purple...