Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy statement concerning the inevitable doom of every other child who contracts rheumatic fever. Said Dr. Cohn further, and more hopefully: "If we can . . . have 3,000 more case records in another ten years ... we may find some way of giving these children a normal span of life on earth...
...every conceivable position," Commander De Witt C. Ramsey, the Navy's official observer, told newsmen afterward. "Using an old pilot's trick, he even stood upright in the cockpit, hoping the wind pressure on his body would right the plane. Finally, at 2,000 ft., with the earth rushing at him 200 ft. a second, he bailed out and descended easily while the plane hurtled into a nearby pine tree...
Capt. Lindbergh pocketed his $25,000 prize, refused offers of $200,000 (cinema), $400,000 (vaudeville), $50,000 (radio), $75,000 (advertising), $150,000 (C. C. Pyle). What he could not refuse were the thousands of gifts which poured in on him from the ends of the earth. Because a handful of St. Louis businessmen had backed him with $15,000, he sent his trophies to the Missouri Historical Society, which housed them in a wing of the Jefferson Memorial at Forest Park. St. Louis. The Spirit of St. Louis he sent to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...hills drew him. There in mysterious mauve hollows was--he knew not what--but surely more beauty than this grim valley. He began his ascent toiling over brown rocks that slipped and twisted his feet. A small snake whipped across his path and twinkled away scarcely stirring the loose earth. There were no violet hollows, only shadows blotted against the cliff walls by clouds...
...Conclusive evidence that coal and other minerals exist in Antarctica; that the entire Antarctic Ice Barrier is not afloat, as was commonly supposed, but is partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live...