Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Hells" spell disaster to the natives of El Salvador, the pocket Republic on that neck of land joining North and South America. "Little Hells'' are geysers of boiling water that hiss and squirt in the bowels of the earth until something gives way. It was El Salvador's "Little Hells" that last week brought the town of San Vicente toppling down, killing 250, injuring...
...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...
...week Editor Brisbane took to bed in his Manhattan apartment. On Christmas Eve, Mr. Brisbane murmured into one of his numerous Dictaphones, brought to his bedside, a timely installment of his far-famed "Today" column: "Another Christmas has come. . . . Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six years ago . . . 'Peace on earth, 'good will toward men'. . . ." Before he could finish, Mr. Brisbane was tired out. His son Seward furnished the final paragraph, the first writing not actually by Arthur Brisbane ever to appear in the daily editorial column he had turned out for 39 years. On Christmas morning, the sick...
...deficiency, most of the large cast of characters who figure in Shining Scabbard are a shadowy and illusive folk, bearing so little resemblance to ordinary humans they might easily be mistaken for apparitions, and engaged in actions that seem far better suited to the nether regions than to solid earth...
...quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases. In the ultraviolet range of the spectrum of the stars Chi 2 Orionis and Chi Aurigae, Astronomers Walter S. Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory found four lines (one of them almost blotted out by the interference of Earth's atmosphere) which they identified as originating from the element titanium. The peculiar sharpness of the titanium lines indicated that the light had picked them up not from the stars but in its travel across the not quite empty gulfs of the galaxy. Thus titanium takes its place...