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Word: sky (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of them saw or heard a bedraggled bundle of feathers whisk out of the lowering sky, plop softly on the Manhattan's sun deck. Soprano Mario, striding briskly, stumbled over it. Mrs. Garson hurried up, agreed that it looked like a mop. To Vibrato it looked like a warm hideaway. He hopped out of his mistress' muff, tried to bury himself in its folds. Only then did the two women discover that the "mop" was an exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birth in a Bat House | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...wondering what Santa Claus is going to do about the Adams House Chimney. If he descends to fill the stockings which the denizens of that patchquilt House hang at Christmas he may be blown back up the Chimney, sky high, bag, and all. A powerful fan is being built under the Adams hearth to make the flames in the unsuccessful fireplace go up, and make the smoke also obey gravity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

...night before Christmas way up in the sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tiny Tower | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...readers masses of data on construction of huge platforms, stabilized high above the waves by means of weighted pillars, on problems of anchorage, navigation, operation, economics. For gumchewers there were exciting pictures of a seadrome at night, in midocean position, with flags flying, floodlights blazing, beacons stabbing the dark sky, gorgeous express planes gliding down to safe landings. Even the windows of the drome's elegant hotel underlying the deck were pricked out with cozy lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sea Chain | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...sandwich stands & six grills) $1,685,000 Greyhound Bus Corp 1,577,000 Streets of Paris $1,465,000 Century News Inc. (guide books & souvenirs) 1,332,000 Eitel. Inc. (Old Heidelberg, Rotisserie, etc.) 1,138,000 College Inn Management, Inc. (Pabst Blue Ribbon Casino) 879,000 Sky ride 757,000 Pay Toilets 728,000 Belgian Village 637,000 Walgreen Co. (2 drug stores) 671,000* Ripley's "Believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fair Business | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

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