Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired, waved from the alighting seaplane...
...smokes cigars in paper holders. Next to Idaho's Borah, he is the Senate's most forceful orator. No casual debater, he carefully prepares his infrequent addresses, draws a big gallery. His delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles exclamatory "Sirl's" throughout his text and makes homely words crack like a whip. His humor is cold, caustic, unsmiling. A speech by him is a highly emotional event for all concerned...
Squinting skyward last week, Turks looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
...Piccard insisted upon one final precaution. When Professor Piccard and Assistant Cosyns start skyward from Dubendorf Airdrome, airplanes and racing automobiles will set out. to be near the spot where the balloon comes to rest. In one of the automobiles will be Mme Piccard...
...were bidding $2,000 for it, planning only to use its subscription list for the Literary Digest. A faithful admirer of the late Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote for Outlook in its heyday, Publisher Tichenor bustled downtown to court, determined to see old Outlook kept alive. He sent the bidding skyward, got the magazine for $12,500, announced that it would resume publication in September if not earlier...