Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comet has net been seen by eye even through the telescope, three photographs, including the discovery one, have given enough material to Whipple so that he can compute accurately how long it takes the comet to describe its elipse around the sun and at what point in the sky the comet will be at any given time...
...before winter comes the Vagabond will do one thing. Some day, soon the sky will clear and shine with a glowing, enchanting blue. The leaves will crackle under foot, and the dying plant life glimmer deceptively gold and crimson in the sun, as with a vernal life and freshness. The tang in the air will stimulate the will to live, when old men will feel young and explain "Indian summer." Then the Vagabond will take to Nature a bottle of sweet wine, and bread and cheese, and her, to make one more memory against the icy death of winter...
...Halfback Sebastian coolly dropped back to his own loyd. line, fired a forward pass 60 yd. down the field. Five fast, crashing plays set Fullback Izzy Weinstock over the Navy line for the first of five touchdowns. Impotent against Pitt's massive line, Navy filled the sky with forward passes, completed only nine out of 31, managed to score once on a Pitt bungle, 34-to-6. Spectators were astonished to find the Yale team wearing white jerseys instead of traditional blue (so they would not toss passes to the blue-clad Washington & Lee players); were less astonished...
...applause was tremendous. The song was made. Last week George Olsen and Joe Morrison were back at the Paramount, this time doing "The Last Round-Up" with a horse posing against a twilight sky. Joe Morrison, his name now blazing under electric lights, was being besieged with radio and cinema offers...
...ground station at Chicago heard the pilot's laconic "Okay.". . . A few minutes later country folk near Chesterton, Ind., 50 mi. southeast of Chicago, were frightened by a terrific explosion overhead. They ran from their houses to see No. 23 gyrating crazily in the sky. its tail broken off. With its cabin lights ablaze, the plane spun to earth, whipped off the tops of a clump of trees, crashed on its back with another earsplitting blast. Towering flames did the rest. Investigators soon discovered this was no ordinary crash. A good ship, flown in good weather by a company...