Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the bumps: that the earth is flat...
Elaborately equipped with radio apparatus, a squad car which pursues electronic clouds as they drift over the earth's surface is in the possession of the Physics Laboratory. Harner Selvidge and Paul Bernard King, Jr., graduate students in the Engineering School, and John Alvin Pierce, are guiding the vehicle in its pursuit of the elusive clouds that travel an estimated distance of 62 miles high...
...rank with the best work Sculptor Barnard has ever done. So were two of his newest works in last week's show: An eight-foot bearded Christ with muscular arms upraised in supplication (the model was a football coach); and a gigantic figure of Mother Earth and Child, eventually to be cut in black granite and gilt...
Annual meetings, like trout-fly sales, are a highly seasonal phenomenon. Singer Manufacturing Co.'s shareholders do not gather until autumn because it takes nine or ten months to collect its sewing machine figures from all the Earth's corners. Bank of the Manhattan Co. holds its meeting in December before the year is done. But traditional annual meeting season is spring. And last week throughout the land stockholders took full advantage of their yearly opportunity to ask questions, make speeches and exercise their corporate franchise...
...while the scorpions here shall crawl from their hiding, presaging rain to a simple folk who have no barometers. For simple folk never perish. Never ! They hide away from the crushing march of your progress. They are the wheat kernels of humanity, and the salt of the earth...