Word: earth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vagabond strolled from his Tower and along the river he mused how good is this natal earth which gives us not only food for our bodies and stuff for our shelters but also feeds us with ideas and sentiments and beautiful sensations. And how good is art which does try to take nature as its teacher and is content to show...
...satellite has crept 50% closer, a menacing bulge will be sucked out of its earthward face by terrestrial attraction. It will grow to a giant disk covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated by atmospheric friction, will make steaming cauldrons of the seas, a smoking ruin of the land. At 20,000 miles what remains of the moon will break in two. then into successively smaller pieces, some of which...
...echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what lay beneath that bottom. I occurred to him to use the "artificial" earthquake method by which oil prospectors map subterranean rock structures. This involves setting off charges of dynamite, measuring the time required for the earth ripples to reach a seismograph planted some distance away, studying the wavy lines on the seismograph record (TIME. Nov. 4). This set-up is called a geophone. Transplanting it to the sea floor and making it work there was like doing a chemical experiment at the bottom of a swimming...
...native architecture throughout Maine. Self-confident, aggressive, Silas was determined to take Solace with him on his next voyage, feared the opposition of her parents and of his own, was sure Solace would willingly accompany him. But when, after he had distributed presents brought from the ends of the earth, he announced his determination, there was no conflict. Solace's parents surrendered her without a struggle. The anticlimax sets the pattern for Silas Crockett, third novel of Mary Ellen Chase, 48, Smith College English professor, whose Mary Peters was one of last year's more durable bestsellers. Covering...
Harvard College has laid all its eggs in another basket. Complete emphasis is placed on academic scholastic effort, the idea being to make us broadly cultured, educated men; the future is left to bring us down to earth. "What shall I major in to prepare myself for business?" the Harvard son asks. "Greek or Latin or Fine Arts," comes the inevitable answer...