Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consists of one-half inch in diameter lead balls hardened with antimony which are fired from a forged steel case by a charge of black powder exploded by a time fuse when the shrapnel-filled-case is about ten yards above the target on its way down to earth...
...rich to want to do so. Imagination is the free way. Unbounded by space its roads are endless; timeless, its speed is as the flash of ideas. And so perhaps to Rome one hour; to Greece another. A trip to the stars before noon; to the soil of the earth as quickly. Nor will the Vagabond confine himself simply to places; but more important, to ideas. Therein lies the adventure of adventure. So come prepared, ye young ones. Soon the Vagabond's travels will begin. In the meantime if you are free you might find him this morning...
Into a beet field just off the racing course at Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week dived a big metal airplane in a swirl of black smoke. Plunking its belly down on the soft earth it suffered no more damage than a crumpled landing gear, dented fuselage, broken propeller. Cursing darkly, a handsome young man jumped out unscratchcd after having made the fastest flight in the history of landplanes...
...Ross Granville Harrison, duplicated the blood of a chicken so successfully that the famed piece of unborn chicken's heart began to grow & grow. If in the 23 years since that experiment started his assistants had not periodically pared the embryonic tissue and destroyed the parings, the whole earth might now (theoretically) be covered with a film of soft flesh...
...birth to a 5-lb. baby. While in labor the girl screamed so loudly that her father heard. He broke in her bedroom door. Believing that the baby was dead and to avoid family disgrace, he picked it up, went outside, dug a foot-deep hole in the frozen earth, placed the naked infant in the grave, covered it with dirt...