Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond retired to the peace of his Sanctum late last evening with mixed feelings: Haile Selassic prays in the mountains.... Italian forces invade Ethiopia.... There's an Oriental sky over the Charles tonight.... London assures Paris; Paris assures London.... Soviet plans to build bath tubs and bakeries for Eskimos.... Roosevelt warns war a potent peril.... Farley designs a new stamp.... Bulgaria foils conspiracy to overthrow King Boris.... Japanese impatient with Nanking.... Women rebel against food prices.... Skirts to be longer this fall.... Stocks fall sharply.... Largest peacetime treasury deficit.... Wheat prices...
...Orange Free State has been the location of the southern hemisphere station of the University Observatory since 1927, previous to which time the observatory "down underneath" was situated in Peru. Photographs of the southern sky are regularly sent here to supplement those taken of the northern heavens at the Cambridge and Oak Ridge stations...
...instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone showed that eminent Iowan's stylistic influence. River Bend was a sweep of stream and a bent road over a round hill nibbled at the bottom by a quarry, all huddled under a low sky of close-flapping clouds. On Manhattan's 57th Street it would have delighted dilettantes. But Iowa "Conservatives" sent up a howl because the river was grey and did not look enough like water. Judge Tellander also gave a prize to a Country Gas Station by Harry D. Jones of Des Moines...
...greet a hero, Berliners flocked out to their great Tempelhof Air Drome last week amid blaring brass bands and goose-stepping Special Guards of Realmleader Hitler's crack detachment. Soon a big plane coasted down out of the hot sky. From it stepped a heavy-set Nurnberger with a closely-cropped head. Beneath his scowling brows and knifelike nose twitched a small black "Hitler mustache." Not in Nazi regalia, the hero wore a Palm Beach suit and his perspiring head gleamed hatless in the sun. Snapping to attention, the Special Guard saluted His Excellency Julius Streicher. Governor of Franconia...
...Rome. Since then it has met in England. The Netherlands, the U. S., once every three or four years. Last week it wound up its fifth congress in Paris, with 300 astronomers from 25 nations in attendance. Meeting. The Congress: ¶Planned an international map of the nearby sky, an enormous mosaic to consist of 11,000 photographs of which 8,000 are already available. ¶Recommended abandonment of 12-hour time notation, adoption of 24-hour time, already in fairly wide use in Europe. Dropped in 24-hour time are "a. m." and "p. m.," 1 p. m. becoming...