Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took up the task of governing Scotland. Unlike Elizabeth, whose wits had been developed by imprisonment and general adversity, Mary had been sheltered all her life. She was cultivated, gracious, unawakened, essentially immature, when she found herself pitted against the greatest queen on earth. A Catholic, she discovered the reality of Protestant influence around her in the first week of her reign, when she was insulted at Mass, defied by John Knox, whose fierce invectives were inflaming the people against her and Rome. The battle she fought was lost from the start...
...gathered, setting up quarters in 500 tents. They fed themselves at the camp ground's restaurant or bought their victuals from its stores. They knew better than to wear low-necked dresses or to use tobacco or alcohol. Zealous believers in a God whose Son might return to earth any minute, they prayed, sang, shouted night after night until last week when two husky ministers ducked numbers of them in a big baptismal tank, sent them home for another year...
Chatting English, French, German and Russian greetings to one another 1,500 physiologists from the ends of the earth (280 from the U. S.) streamed into Leningrad's glass-roofed Uritsky Palace last week to constitute the 18th International Physiological Congress. The showpiece of Russian science, 85-year-old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, mounted the Uritsky rostrum, rang a bell. Long ago Dr. Pavlov conducted an experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called...
...Chicago, at the Illinois Macaroni Manufacturers' Association meeting, Frank Traficanti presented figures showing that U. S. macaroni made in 1934, placed end to end, would girdle the Earth 11,046,700 times...
...national policy of Japan is clearly revealed in the divine message that the Sun Goddess gave her grandson, the first Emperor, on his advent in Japan: Japan is ruled by an unbroken line of emperors and the prosperity of the imperial line is coeval with heaven and earth...