Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
...years before the U. S. took Cuba from Spain, Japan took the Island of Formosa from China and kept it. Japanese citizens, however, do not like Formosa, and only enough Japanese live there to take out the oil, timber and camphor. Last week, far beneath the earth's surface, some internal ailment seeking relief exploded a volcano in Japan, shook Alaska, rumbled down the Chinese coast, crossed the shallow Formosan Strait and rocked Formosa with the Far East's worst earthquake since...
...fields and naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked at the three-foot rents in the earth and whooped, "the devil's laugh...
...seems reasonable to suppose that every star becomes a nova at least once in the hundreds of billions of years of its life. If the Sun took its turn next year, next month or next fortnight, the start of the performance would promptly scorch every living thing on Earth to a crisp...
...earth has never been a sphere...