Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris fireworks lit the sky, and the people sang "Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre," for ships had brought news of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. From Nice Lord Cholmondeley hastened to pay his respects to Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and Fox's ill-fated ministry swiftly dispatched ambassadors to treat with the philosopher. Jay arrived, and John Adams, and from London came Richard Oswald, a merchant whom Shelbourne considered sufficiently canny to deal successfully with the Yankees. The stage was set for great deeds. For reasons personal or traditional the gulf between Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams...
...Army balloon Stratostat, U. S. R. R. shot up from Moscow's airdrome one windless morning last week with a neatness that contrasted happily with eight previously bungled attempts. Up, up it sailed until it became a tiny silver bubble, then a pinpoint hanging in the sky. After about two hours the ground station received a radio flash from the Stratostat: it had passed Piccard's world record of 10 mi., was still climbing! Another three hours, and the U. S. S. R. had pulled itself up to 11.8 mi., was ready to come down. The descent went...
Asked a reporter: "Are big storms caused by too much high-power radio in the sky?" Answered Senator Marconi, laughing: "No. There were bad storms in prehistoric days...
...until it got well enough to scramble back the way it had come. But Man was everywhere. Men gathered by hundreds along the path on the chasm's opposite bank. Men threw a threatening bridge straight across to the ledge. Worst of all, they descended terrifyingly from the sky...
Jumps. H. E. ("Spud") Manning hugged a 25-lb. sack of flour in his arms when he baled out at 14,000 ft. in one of his famed delayed-opening parachute jumps. His tail of flour against the pale blue sky made him look like a comet's ghost as he plummeted down a full two miles. Not until he was within 1,000 ft. of the ground did he jerk his rip cord, break his 147-111.p.h. fall, soar down to a perfect two-leg landing in midfield...