Word: sunlights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Story. The first wave of planes slipped in at 7:55 a.m., the Rising Sun insignia clearly visible in the early morning sunlight. Single-engine bombers singled out ships and naval centers in Pearl Harbor, blanketed the area with explosives. Under subsequent attack were the Army's Hickam Field, Wheeler Field, Schofield Barracks, Bellows Field, Kaneohe Naval Air Station and that portion of the fleet offshore. In all there were six separate attacks, the others coming...
Whatever their various trade names, these rubbers are all essentially, Bunas. Many of them are not subject to natural rubber's major drawbacks: deterioration under the influence of 1) oils, 2) high temperatures, 3) sunlight. But some of them still heat up more than natural rubber when subjected to flexing and, though elastic, are less snappy...
...skirted ballerinas she had always idolized. "I would not have admitted," exclaimed Painter Degas, "that a woman could draw as well as that." Inviting her to join the ranks of the Impressionists who were just then making history by dragging art from its musty museums and studios into the sunlight, Painter Degas gave her some pointers on drawing. The platonic friendship between dapper, ironic Boulevardier Degas and his prim Pennsylvania ward ripened and endured until Degas' death in 1917, became the closest relationship Mary Cassatt ever had with a member of the opposite...
From the deck of a ship entering the harbor, Willemstadt in Curaçao looks like a toy Dutch town, its well-scrubbed houses bright in the vivid tropic sunlight. To 79 men, women and children hanging over the rails of the Spanish liner Cabo de Hornos last week, Curaçao seemed very beautiful. It looked like heaven to them, for they had been on a long voyage through hell...
...Life. Astonished were the biologists upon finding a small green valley amid the icy wastes of Palmer Land (straight south of Cape Horn). Surrounded by high cliffs which concentrated the wan Antarctic sunlight, mosses, lichens and even grasses grow for one or two months each year, even though for the rest of the year they must endure 100-mile blizzards and - 60° cold. And there lives the largest land animal yet found on the Antarctic Continent: a kind of springtail, or primitive wingless insect, which is one-half inch long...