Word: core
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imagination. The Earth, Dr. Willis suggested, originally was an aggregation of cold substances which gravitation pulled into a tight little planetary mass somewhere between 50 million and two billion years ago. Ever since, radioactive elements in Earth's material have been driving energy towards its centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other heavy elements 4,000 miles in diameter surrounded by a rocky shell 2,000 miles thick. As eons pass, "the persistent release of atomic forces continue, and will continue to supply heat and melt the surrounding shell...
...core of the question is that a man who is sick or under some other special disability because he was a soldier should certainly be assisted as such. But if a man is suffering from economic need because of the Depression, even though he is a veteran, he must be placed on a par with all of the other victims of the Depression...
Complaint is sometimes made that the titans have departed from U. S. Business. But for the past 15 years Business has had at its core & centre the legendary equal of any of the 19th Century mythmen-Orlando Weber. Last week, without ever having found out much about him, U. S. Business lost...
...mushroomed up from the dumbwaiter shaft of his sleeping house in Boston's Back Bay where lay his crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John...
...wealth. He had already written his will giving $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins Hospital and $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During the following Lent he addressed an imperious letter to twelve leading Baltimore men. In that letter he revealed the tender core of his heart. Wrote he: "The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treatment, and who can be received into the Hospital without peril to the other inmates, and the poor of this city and State...