Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this apparatus was aroused by cryptic articles appearing in several newspapers, which declared that Marconi and his 'micro-wave' machine will soon be on the African frontier, ready to frustrate dusky aviators as soon as they dare leave the ground, and force their bare feet back to mother earth...
...goes. Generation after generation of American voters, falling for the same old stuff Barnum gave them in the Greatest Show on Earth. There's a sucker born every minute, and at twenty-one he becomes a voter. America is like a bass drum, big and noisy. Step right inside, folks, On with the show...
...studded globes mounted on each end of a cylindrical frame eleven feet long, is shaped like a huge dumbbell, looks like the grotesque plaything of an ogre. In effect the machine is simply an extremely versatile stereopticon. It shows the stars visible to the naked eye from anywhere on Earth, about 4,500 from any one spot; the sun, the moon and its phases, the planets, variable stars, comets, meteors, the Milky Way. It can rehearse a 24-hour maneuver of the celestial bodies in a few minutes, can show the night sky as it appeared in the remote past...
...Hayden Planetarium was opened last week, Mr. Hayden was on hand to turn over the control board keys to President Davison. "I think," said Mr. Hayden, "anything is beneficial that makes men realize that there is a much greater power in the universe than the human being on Earth, and I feel that what one sees and hears in the planetarium should make him stop, look and listen...
Both Over African Jungles and Speak to the Earth are frivolous works compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet. The travelers saw some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration...