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Word: sky (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retake one small town* he massed 500 field guns on a 25-mile front, sent some 200 planes into the grey and icy sky and poured Spaniards, Moors, Foreign Legionnaires, Italian Blackshirts into the lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Battle of the Nations | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...reaching Mexico City, where the sky is always blue and the air as sparkling as a pailletted gown, the Vagabond found little to deter his progress save a herd of lethargic cattle at every turn of the road, and, amidst every cluster of thatched huts, dozens of farrowing pigs that would scuttle under and around his car with uncivilized abandon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand. "If I contradict myself here as a Chinese." shrugs Dr. Lin. "I am happy as a Chinese that I contradict myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: R3D2H3S2 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...which have suffered from the reduction in size and difference in the method of reproduction. The "elephant" folio was exquisitely engraved on copper and aquatinted (principally by Robert Havell, who edited as he transcribed Audubon's watercolors, here deleting a leaf-spray, there toning down a garish sunset sky, altogether contributing much artistic merit to the pictures). Plates for the new edition have been reduced and reproduced by mechanical, sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birds of America | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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