Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh groped in the foggy Venezuelan morning. He twitched the Spirit of St. Louis upwards and sideways, seeking an opening in the mists and mountain peaks. He found a rift and streaked out over the Caribbean. For 100 miles seeing no land the flyer contemplated the two tinges of blue sky and bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands in the Lesser Antilles. At St. Thomas in the Virgin...
Thomas Alva Edison, pseudo-atavistic, grows expert with cocoanuts. At the South Florida fair blue ribbons were tacked to his cocoanuts. He had the best; also the largest cluster. Luther Burbank started him in the cocoanut game. Recently Mr. Edison extended his Florida agricultural activities to experiments for rubber vines...
...wish this blue book is written by Zakewski...
...professor turned in the doorway, shrugging his shoulders into his topcoat. He smiled at the three section men gathered around the long table with the neat foot-high piles of blue books. His hand was on the knob as he said: "Be kind, gentlemen, but be, ha --ha, not too kind...
...handball tournament for the whole University has just started in Hemenway Gymnasium. The blue books are now posted in the Gymnasium, and all men who intend to compete in the tourney must be signed up before February...