Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worldling" TIME meant that Scientist Hawkesworth, like all astronomers, was earth-bound in his observations of the universe, not that he was personally selfish or materialistic...
Concluded Haile Selassie, whose name means Power of Trinity: "Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord, there is not on this earth any nation superior to any other. . . . Are the States going to set up the terrible precedent of bowing before force? ... It is international morality which is at stake! . . . Representatives of the world, I have come to Geneva to discharge in your midst the most painful of duties for the head of a State. What reply have I to take back to my people?" "Almost Ridiculous." In reply to His Majesty, thousands and tens of thousands of weasel words...
...morning last week Enoch Kuklinskie and his father were working with pick & wheelbarrow about 65 ft. below the surface when they heard the rotten timbering begin to crack. They filled up the wheelbarrow once more. On the way out Father Kuklinskie heard the earth breaking up over his head, felt it falling on his shoulders. He ran, dragging his pick to safety. But in one glance backward he saw Son Enoch flop under the wheelbarrow as the avalanche of coal and rock descended...
...EARTH TREMBLES-Jules Romains -Knopf ($3). When last week the fifth volume of Jules Romains' super-novel (Men of Good Will-TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.) appeared, no one knew how many more were to come. Even Author Romains himself could not or would not say how nearly he had brought his big job to completion. Readers who had watched this literary skyscraper rise from its foundations were still unable to agree whether it actually was to be a skyscraper, a museum, a prison or what. Skeptics still cocked a wary eye at the construction, averred that...
Hard-bitten Texans describe their State as the place where you can look farther and see less, where there are more cows and less milk, than anywhere else on earth. Readers looking over the current bumper crop of books about Texas, put out to synchronize with the Texas Centennial, might have added that it is the State about which you can read more and learn less than any other in the Union...