Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels, tossed Owner Martin, bolted into the crowd. The next time they struck the earth with their hoofs until it trembled, tugged the truck down the course in short order to win the event...
...learned to go through fences without injury, are able to provide a breath-taking accident almost every race. Most hairraising spectacle of all was provided last week by Daredevil "Clem" Sohnn "the bat man," who thrice ascended in an airplane, thrice leaped out in midair, soaring and looping toward earth on his canvas wings (TIME, March...
...office, meticulously snips out every item about every suicide. Between times Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania statistician, writes to health officials and registrars of principal U. S. cities, requesting every iota of news about suicides. In this fashion he accumulates one of the most reliable records on earth concerning that army of unhappy souls who would dissipate their troubles in death...
Meanwhile doctors over the face of the earth, experimenting with Chemist Ruzicka's artificial androsterone, have told him enough to warrant his claiming: "By the injection of the hormone, normal sex desires can be awakened and will be accompanied by certain physical changes. The hormone, further, can be used in reducing enlargement of the prostate gland; common in elderly...
...Allies in the early weeks of the war, through the first of the ever greater private loans to Britain and France, through the first inarticulate gaspings of the preparedness movement, the "Plattsburg idea"--Mr. Millis traces event after event which slowly and inexorably sucked the greatest democracy on earth into the earth's greatest malestrom. He spares no one; he has no respect for war-time idols, for figureheads thrown up by the War and still maintained in an anomalous position by a public torn between sentiment and disillusionment...