Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gendels of the balloon in this flight was above ninety-seven per cent of the earth atmosphere, and thus a spectrum of the sun could be obtained which would be free from practically all interference. It is hoped that the ultra-violet ray end of the spectrum may have been observed with greater accuracy...
Blond, handsome, American Airlines Pilot Wellington P. McFail, who succeeded in gliding safely to earth with his mail when the motor of his plane dropped out between Texarkana and Dallas...
...other hand, it has steadily lost zest since the duster & goggles era. In those days the average automobile owner knew his car intimately, could take it apart even if he could not put it together again. Today, when many a citizen in the most motorized nation on earth never sees the engine of his car except when a service station attendant lifts the hood to check the oil, most owners are ignorant of automotive engineering, take mechanical excellence for granted, are chiefly interested in appearance, comfort, economy, safety. And what determines the buyer's final choice is what gives...
...delays for wardrobe replacements. Transatlantic Tunnel (Gaumont-British) exhibits the British cinema industry, long noted for its delvings into history, hopefully examining the future. Suggested by the speech in which Stanley Baldwin declared that an alliance between the U. S. and Britain would be a sanction no power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June 17), it proposes an intercontinental subway line and shows the difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge...
Typical of the cinema method employed in Things to Come is the passage describing what happens when they leave the Earth: "Clouds of dust obscure the screen and clear to show the crowd after the shock. Some press their ears as if they were painful, others stare under their hands up into the sky. Then the crowd begins to stream back towards the city . . . in a straggling, aimless manner, and pausing ever and again to stare...