Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that the grapplers showed some possibilities against Brown on Saturday night, but it is admitted that they will have to show much more promise if they are to keep their season's record unblemished. One of the brightest stars in the Crimson sky is another member of the Ames family. Continuing the record of no defeats in dual competition which was established by Dick Ames, his brother Harry won a well-deserved fall in the Freshman 145-pound class. Strong and powerful, the younger Ames is expected to follow in the footsteps of his big brother...
...their money back. Practically the entire Opera district was walled off by police, soldiers and Nazi troopers. Standing shoulder to shoulder down the curbstones, they formed living cordons between which the snorting motor cars of Reichswehr officers and Nazi leaders raced. Police and troops snapped to salute as sky-blue uniformed General Goring dashed up, beaming and bowing in response to cheers which a foreign correspondent described as "unuttered." (The writer was later rebuked by the Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment for such "base cynicism...
Another thing that's changed in Washington since the depression is that the nation's capital is now a booming, growing city. Its population having increased by approximately 20 per cent or 100,000, Congressmen are having difficulty in getting located. Rents are sky-high, and there aren't enough rooms to go 'round. Some prominent Washingtonians, as it is, are commuting daily between Alexandria and the District...
Other books: Henry David Thoreau, The Poetry of John Dryden, Spring Thunder and other Poems, Now the Sky and other Poems, Jonathan Gentry...
...throwing off two shells of tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...