Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London. The primary grades had already been dismissed. But there were 690 boys and girls and 40 teachers still in the spreading story-and-a-half high-school wing. They would have been dismissed in ten minutes, when something, almost certainly natural gas from the bowels of the earth, exploded. Four hundred and fifty-five students and teachers were instantly blown, crushed, torn to death...
...Ringling and Barnum & Bailey outfits joined forces. With Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey still in Florida winter quarters last week, this tradition was shattered when Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty moved into the Hippodrome, became the first important tent show in a generation to challenge "The Greatest Show on Earth" not only by playing New York, hitherto practically a Ringling monopoly, but playing it before Ringling got there, and playing it under a "permanent top" (a building as distinguished from a tent...
Proxima Centauri, the sun's nearest neighbor among the stars, is 25 trillion miles away from Earth. Even if it had a family of planets, no telescope could reveal them. According to Sir James Jeans, a star which has a brood of planets must be an exceedingly rare thing in the sky; the solar system may be unique among the billions of stars which constitute the Milky Way galaxy. To Sir James it is a simple matter of mathematical probability. He has done much to propagate the "tidal theory" of the solar system's origin which is probably...
...Observatory at Marseille, France, noticed that certain lines of the nova's spectrum were double. If a source of light is approaching, its spectrum lines are shifted to one side; if receding, to the other side. Therefore the doubling of the Nova Herculis lines indicated motions both toward Earth and away from Earth. Belorizky now takes this to mean that the cloud of gas around the star is rotating. If the cloud broke up into condensing masses, they would continue revolving around the parent star as planets...
...nurses and doctors. She had been with us six months. . . . She continued to regress until she assumed the foetal posture, breathing gently being her only movement. At this time she was sent to a State hospital where soon she was gathered into the womb of her mother earth to which we all regress soon or late...