Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogged Bolivians. Should Paraguay break through, she will win not only the Fort, but the best motor road in all South America, leading straight into Bolivia's rich Villa Monies oilfields. Paraguayan cavalry columns moved northeast in an effort to outflank the Fort and all night long the sky was yellow with shellfire, while swaying ambulances going back passed heavy munitions trucks moving...
...roof. But Death was not ready for him. Fifteen stories up, a narrow ledge broke his fall, saved his life, left him with a leg jammed in a masonry hole. For six days and nights he struggled to tear his leg free, screamed, stared up at the sky through wind, rain, sun, mist. Then, as a workman discovered him, Death was ready for Shirley Brewer...
...land. It tore the powdery soil from the roots of the wheat and deposited it like snowdrifts miles away. Concrete highways were buried under six inches of dust. The rich fertility of a million farms took to the air: 300,000,000 tons of soil billowing through the sky. Housewives in Des Moines could write their names in grime upon their table tops. Aviators had to climb 15,000 ft. to get above the pall. A dust storm 900 mi. wide, 1,500 mi. long swept out of the drought-stricken West. In dust-darkened Chicago excited Board of Trade...
...burning sun under a cloudless blue sky, a doughty Kirkland House baseball team felt the well sharpened Bulldog teeth of the champion Yale College batsmen, as they went down to inglorious defeat before the clever pitching of the Jonathan Edwards team by a score of 11-0 yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Crimson batting averages soared sky high at the same time, with the team as a whole garnering some 17 hits and never being at all severely pressed during the course of the engagement. Two of the men who came through with stellar performances at the plate were Dick Maguire, and Bill Prouty...