Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engineer Somervell wasted no time. Within two weeks President Roosevelt pressed a button at Hyde Park, which exploded a dynamite charge which shot a fountain of Florida earth skyward. Gangs of WPA workers and mules were set to cleaning the right of way. Just outside Ocala, Camp Roosevelt sprang into being as a huge construction base. The counties along the route formed a Florida Ship Canal Authority, voted a $1,500,000 bond issue to buy the right of way, a mile wide from Palatka to the Gulf. By last week 23.000 of the necessary 65.000 acres were acquired...
Admiral Walter R. Gherardi of the United States Navy was the guest of honor at the Winthrop House weekly dinner last night. During his talk following the dinner, he spoke on his work in hydrography, the science of describing and mapping the waters of the earth's surface...
...vainglorious Lowell tower should blaze with incandescent light so many, many nights while Dunster, Adams, and Eliot towers carve but grey and humble silhouettes in the midnight sky? Whence comes the warrant for this lone, flamboyant panoply? Lowell House, is't not enough to curdle the bowels of the earth with the hellish bells...
...down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found to have faint arms. Then these arms were seen to be tremendously long and spiraling. Later the nebula was revealed as much closer to Earth than at first believed, scarcely 1,000,000 light years away. It was marked now not as a blob, but as an island universe containing a billion or more stars. Finally, at Harvard, the diameter of this star-galaxy was measured at some 10,000 light years, which unveiled it at last...
...finish this picture with bland approbation of the charming impossibility of it all, and then you are jarred back to earth to see one of Major Bowes' amateurs imitate Zasu Pitts and Mao West...