Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast to the battle scone, a quiet note is expressed at the right by the sleeper awakening. He represents the regenerated race of man. "The World's New Age hath dawned. . . . Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure...
...legend states, "All the earth shall tremble so, and the crags, that trees shall be torn up from the earth, and the crags fall to ruin; and all fetters and bonds shall be broken and rent. . . . In this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...
...showed that the light from the most distant nebulae (clouds of stars) which he could photograph in Mount Wilson's giant telescope was shifted far toward the red end of the spectrum. Such a redshift is observed in the light of a star known to be retreating from Earth, so it was assumed that the distant nebulae were retreating in all directions. On these observations, and on the theoretical expanding universes formulated by de Sitter and Lemaitre before any observations were made, the case for the expanding universe rested...
...declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from suicide. Everywhere Missionary Jones was the headline speaker, driving home repeatedly his message to the effect that: "Religion is at the judgment bar. America must make her choice among Fascism, Communism, or the Kingdom of God on earth...
Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...