Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other State in the U. S. Four of the five Great Lakes provide all but two of Michigan's borders. Yet within 50 miles of fresh water in Michigan there is an inexhaustible supply of salt water. From briny depths 1,200 ft. or more beneath the earth's surface the 39-year-old Dow Chemical Co. daily pumps thousands of gallons of water from which it makes hundreds of products. Seat of the briny grand duchy of Dow is Midland, whose citizens once brought suit against Founder Herbert Henry Dow because his plant was filling the town...
...were microscopically fine, the light of Antares would be reddened, just as the sun is reddened when it shines through a long slope of the hazy atmosphere at evening. Also, the light from the nebula would be made bluer by selective scattering of the same kind which makes the earth's sky blue.* Actually, the color of the star and that of the nebula are almost identical. Therefore the nebular fragments must be big enough to reflect the light intact-as big as sand grains, peas, marbles, melons or mountains...
...down-to-earth, practical. Our appeal is to the matter-of-fact, mechanically-minded man, who can make things and do things, and who knows or wants to know what makes the wheels go 'round...
...Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...
...EARTH TREMBLES-Jules Remains -Knopf...