Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called it "Return to Earth," sent it to the Saturday Evening Post, was paid $500 for it, saw it published in February. Excerpts...
Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News), longtime aviation enthusiast, read "Return to Earth," thought it showed writing ability, decided it was a shame that such a fine young man must risk his life to feed his family. He wired Author Collins, offered him a $100-per-week job as a newspaper columnist, writing about aviation...
...hated to think that something might happen in that last dive. I thought of the wife and kids as I climbed for altitude. It was a swell day. I checked everything carefully. I rolled over into the dive and started down. I caught a glimpse of the blue earth far beneath, so remote...
What was more, the gloom was worldwide. Heads of the European central banks gathered at a board meeting of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland, found fundamental conditions growing worse in every important economic area of the earth (see p. 20). After the meeting a New York Times correspondent wrote: "There is no feeling of despair and no fear of an immediate catastrophe anywhere, however. Pessimism comes from the continued lack of any indication of improvement in the basic factors . . . and discouragement from the fact that every one, despite all efforts made, feels he is forever fighting...
...prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again. And nobody even attempted to laugh him out of it. He continued to exercise omnipotence over his farm, had a lookout built for himself, kept his household on edge by blowing a horn when he wanted somebody to come running. His granddaughter, Jocelle, became his favorite...