Word: comets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been 400 mi. in diameter. It nicked the Earth from northwest to southeast, scoured 40,000 sq. mi. of the Piedmont, ripped over 150,000 sq. mi. of ocean...
...several odd jobs to do on the way. Followed by a comet's tail of attaches and Japanese reporters, he went from Tokyo first to Mostow, where he attempted, to arrange for Russian recognition of Manchukuo. Soviet officials remained coy but indefinite. Russia is genuinely anxious to sign treaties of non-aggression with her neighbors, but she can see no advantage in recognizing Manchukuo without first receiving such a treaty from Japan...
...five-year period Author Sullivan has raked together: sinking of the Titanic, the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight, forced dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, electrocution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Halley's Comet, Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis in the U. S., Politician "Uncle Joe" Cannon...
...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
...outgrowth of the old Transcontinental Air Transport, over which Col. Lindbergh flew the first 48 hr. air-&-rail trip three years ago. Last year it began to operate an all-air service for passengers, but included an overnight stop in Kansas City. It took 36 hours. The new Comet schedule was made possible by perfecting night-flying facilities...