Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eyes are turned skyward to the future, which all co-workers, in this clearing house for astronomical data in the Western Hemisphere, feel should shortly see "an enriched knowledge of our earth's gaseous envelope, a reasonable interpretation of the origin of meteors and comets, and the cosmic significance of the dusty clouds of interstellar space...
Streaking across the afternoon sky, this comet brought astronomers from all corners of the nation to Cambridge, where, it was rumored, existed an observation station. Disappointment was great upon discovery of University astronomers peering skyward with hand-shielded but naked eye, just as the visitors had already done...
...flesh, he is good-looking, not too large, stands 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighs 188 pounds, and walks with a noticeable spring in his step. In the stands Saturday, the hymns of praise that echoed skyward every time he tied his shoelaces or adjusted his helmet were strangely reminiscent of Fenway, where the crowd blows its top every time Ted Williams gets a base on balls. Let no parallel be drawn between the two athletes themselves...
Intense nocturnal activity at the University Observatory is expected tonight and throughout the early part of the week as the star gazers train their telescopes skyward for an aerial fireworks show of thousands of meteors, calculated to make their debut in the Boston sector of earth's atmosphere at 10 o'clock Wednesday...
Japan too celebrated the harvest moon with a "Moon Viewing Festival." Millions of Japanese came out to gaze skyward, to dance and feast in honor of harvest home. Some remembered that in Japanese tradition the moon also symbolizes homesickness. Outside the cream-colored Russian Embassy in Tokyo, 3,000 men & women, mostly elderly farmers, marched slowly back & forth, bowing as they passed the big iron gate. In their hands were small white banners decorated with moons. One banner was inscribed: "Oh moon, tell me where...