Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost struck by a high foul which fell on the seat next to him. Secret Service men fell over themselves trying in vain to catch it. The President grinned at "Barney" Baruch: "Another foot nearer and there might have been a national catastrophe." Soon threatening clouds filled the sky. Said the President: "We'll stay until it does rain." It did, after four innings, with the score 0-0. Well spattered before he was covered by an umbrella, the disappointed President was conducted...
...engine. One day last week at Montecelio Airfield outside Rome smiling young Pilot Donati stuffed himself into a gutta percha flying suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella's customary limit was 24,600 ft. but she had been specially primed for this flight. Up, up she pulled the Caproni and Donati, into thin air and a temperature of -68° F; eight miles, 8½ miles, just 180 ft. short of nine...
...sealer's life has eased since Captain Kean first went out. Now ships are powered to escape grinding ice and most of them are built of steel. Airplanes fly .ahead to spot seal herds from the sky. Daily weather reports radioed from Toronto and Washington tell the skipper when to keep his men off the ice. But sealing is still no sport for milksops as any sealer will attest when, huddling behind an ice pinnacle after a ducking, he strips to a cutting wind, wrings out his icy clothes and tugs them back...
Yesterday morning unexpectedly it happened. Steadying his head to prevent its rolling heavily off onto the floor the Vagabond groaned from his couch, achieved the window, and peered querulously up into the April sky. The winey sunlight warmed his gouty limbs and made his head contract pleasantly. Suddenly the Vagabond turned and frowned at the disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly...
...rich new field. When the U. S. started buying gold last year. 58 new mining brokers registered at "Manila in a single month and 30 new companies were incorporated. The Director of Commerce and Industry hastened to dam up a flood of worthless wildcat securities by revamping the blue sky laws...