Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with splendid balance, and a street-walker hurrying to receive a caller, while below a gray-faced little woman phones to her sister of the death of their mother. The focus of interest is clearly upon these characters as human beings and not as the protagonists in some vast cosmic mystery...
...mind are thus singular and exceptional phenomena, not in line with the movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic epoch we are the spectators of what is perhaps the grandest event in the. immeasurable history of our universe...
...surrounded by young men from the West Side Y. M. C. A., appeared as "The Prophetess" in a dance-drama to the music of "Mars" from Gustav von Hoist's suite, The Planets. Many an observer found its symbology muddled and "arty," wondered what was meant by "the Cosmic Consciousness . . . realization of the Unity of Life . . . Summit of Illumination...
Herbert George Wells, novelist, cosmic thinker: "I have arranged with the British Broadcasting Company for a series of talks [by eminent economists & sociologists] in September on the subject, 'What I would do with the World...
...German men of science to the obscure Swiss who had become a world figure overnight. He had not conferred with such eminent students of the stratosphere as Regener, Hergesell, Hansen. His instruments were inadequate; Regener's devices would have permitted accurate measurements. Science already knew as much about the cosmic ray as Piccard could learn at firsthand. All told, his most important contribution was the proof that men can live in an airtight container. Those findings might be useful to the men who are building a stratosphere airplane in the Junkers plant at Dessau...