Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize TIME'S space is valuable. But Mr. Harry B. Press's letter, "Heaven on Earth" [TIME, May 4], written as a backfire on my letter "Santa Monica's Bottles" [TIME, April 20j, contained such words as "peeve," "libel," "free board and room," "weary bones " etc Therefore I feel that TIME might give me a few more lines to say that Mr. Harry Press is really in no position to champion Santa Monica and Santa Monica...
...need of avoiding the effects of Serajevos and Lusitanias. Obviously, a few members of Congress and the American press have benefited well from the discussions; for the same newspapers which ran essay contests on neutrality now show their intense patriotism and their same desire to see American run the earth. It was not lack of patriotism which lay behind the order to leave the American legation; it was experience of the history of more than one recent crisis and an exact knowledge of the unimportance of American interests and the importance of avoiding friction. The so-called "insult...
...that the $225,000 be put back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive, by any act or vote of mine," cried Democratic Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas, "one hope in the bosom of a gangster by withholding the means that are necessary to pursue him around this earth, to the very gates of Hell...
...prototype, he is conscious of peculiar power. ... He recognizes the power of a single horn which he uses as a prow to pass under fences and barriers in his path, or as a forward thrusting bayonet in his attacks. And, to invert the beatitude, his ability to inherit the earth gives him the virtues of meekness. Consciousness of power makes him docile...
Nine months of the year the northeast trade winds blow across the Gulf of Venezuela into Colombia, where the Andes taper off in three great wrinkles in the earth's crust. As the warm, moist trades are deflected upward by the first mountain range the air is cooled, releasing part of its burden of rain. In the tropical night an almost continuous electrical display can be seen along the mountain peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish...