Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press, General Kleber openly assumed command on the Huesca front northeast of Madrid. Same day Leftist war planes went into action, dueling above Huesca province in one of the great air battles of the war. At one time more than 100 ships were going for each other in the sky, ten were shot down, and it had been sufficiently demonstrated that the Leftists have a fine stable of aircraft in reserve which Moscow is saving to defend Madrid rather than wasting them in the defense of Bilbao and Santander...
...prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon's diameter. Four spots of red solar prominences appeared plainly during the eclipse. The planet Venus, which appeared even before totality, shone; also Mercury and several stars of first magnitude. The sky appeared a deep blue as did the water even at the beginning of the eclipse. I could see to the west all the way under the moon's shadow to where the sun shone more than 150 miles away. This low saffron brightness ascended steadily during the eclipse...
...onto the public part of the beach. He had just handed cards to two pretty young women when he noticed Lawyer Hurley. "I was shocked. I told him he couldn't lie there like that. But he kept lying with his head on the sand looking at the sky. So I called the police." Three policemen marched protesting Lawyer Hurley to the station, booked him on charges of indecent exposure. He was acquitted...
...Wellsian book as Star-Begotten. And occasionally, as a good journalist may, Wells's burbling, suggestive, enthusiastic talk strikes out a suddenly poetic phrase that rings in the memory: "With their hard, clear minds and their penetrating, unrelenting questions stinging our darkness as the stars sting the sky...
...metagalactic cloud" appeared on the Harvard plates in the course of a survey that is recording all galaxies in the sky brighter than the 18th magnitude. The system first was signaled out as a "major irregularity" in he distribution of faint galaxies in the southern sky, Dr.Shapley said...