Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosion passes through a heavy quartz window in the cylinder head to a stationary lens, thence to a series of 30 rapidly moving lenses which follow the film and hold each image motionless on it during exposure. The spark is seen first like a lone star in a black sky, then a flame front spreading and backwashing around the base of the chamber. At one stage back pressure was observed to make combustion-produced carbon dioxide hotter than the actually burning gases. Pressure-curve recorders enable motormen to cor relate pressure with flame front propagation, a long-sought goal...
...MENTION HARVARD'S ASTRONOMER HARLOW SHAPLEY'S LECTURE AT DETROIT [TIME, APRIL 13] AND NOT THE ONE AT CINCINNATI? AS AGAINST DETROIT'S 200 SKY-LOVERS' ATTENDANCE WE HAD OVERFLOW ATTENDANCE OF 2,200. DR. SHAPLEY DID NOT LOSE HIS SLIDES IN CINCINNATI AND DID NOT HAVE TO FILL IN HIS STAR LECTURE WITH LECTURE ON ANTS BUT GAVE HIS ANT LECTURE TO SPECIAL AUDIENCE AT QUEEN CITY CLUB LUNCHEON. AT WORLD FAMOUS ROOK-WOOD POTTERY DR. SHAPLEY DESIGNED AND SIGNED ASTRONOMICAL ASH TRAY FOR HIMSELF AND MEMBERS. CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY SAW, ACCORDING TO SIZE, AMERICA...
...passed overhead, evidently headed for the Ethiopian capital. Twenty minutes later a sharp-eyed outlook fired a warning gun from the hilltop by the royal palace. Soon ten planes came over the eastern horizon. Traders and warriors in the town rushed into their compounds, blazed away at the sky with ancient muskets, double-barreled elephant guns, Belgian trade rifles, all with no apparent effect. For 15 minutes the Italian planes circled at an altitude of 6,000 feet. Then two broke away, dived at the airport with machine guns spitting alternate bursts of hard and incendiary bullets...
Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley never tires of trooping up & down the country telling people about the universe. Last week some 200 sky-lovers gathered at Detroit's Institute of Arts to hear tousle-haired Dr. Shapley discourse on "Exploring the Galaxy." This talk was to be illustrated with stereopticon slides. Few minutes before lecture time a man from the projection room scuttled up to the platform, confessed to the astronomer that the slides had been mislaid. Squirming and damp-browed. Dr. Shapley whispered hoarsely to the man who was about to introduce...
...Queen scowled more than ever, reminding Alice of nothing so much as the sky just before a great rainstorm starts. "Marx! Yes, I saw him in "A Night at the Opera". Is the book as funny as the stateroom scene...