Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after feebly attempting to commit first robbery and then suicide, visiting Heaven before he comes back to Earth to beg forgiveness of Julie (Madeleine Czeray...
...brown Pennsylvania earth was stirring gently last week and the skunk cabbages were popping up by the brooksides, but the Amish Mennonite farmers of Lancaster County were not made happy by the first touch of spring. Plain-dressed, plain-thinking folk, they were faced with a vexing question before they could begin to cultivate their fields. Amishmen, unlike members of other Mennonite sects, do not sign contracts. An Amishman's word is as good as another's bond. Yet contracts were waiting for them to sign as part of AAA's crop-reduction program...
...long-range gunfire nine or ten factors might be taken into consideration for computing the most accurate possible trajectory: speed of battleship, speed of enemy ship, drift of waves, wind velocity, shape of shell, muzzle velocity of shell, atmospheric humidity, even the rotation of the earth. Naval engineers might wrestle with their ballistics equations for months to correlate these factors. The machine can do in five minutes what it takes five naval engineers four months to do on paper...
...their million hard gray faces, they streamed past upon the streets forever, like a single animal, with the sinuous and baleful convolutions of an enormous reptile. And the magical and shining air-the strange, subtle and enchanted weather, was above them, and the buried men were strewn through the earth on which they trod, and a bracelet of great tides was flashing round them, and the enfabled rock on which they swarmed swung eastward in the marches of the sun into eternity, and was masted like a ship with its terrific towers, and was flung with a lion...
...foolish, vain, and impotent of all impostors, a man who sought the whole world over 'looking for a place to write', when, he knew now with every naked, brutal penetration of his life 'the place to write' was Brooklyn, Boston, Hammersmith, or Kansas-anywhere on earth, so long as the heart, the power, the faith, the desperation, the bitter and unendurable necessity, and the naked courage were there inside him all the time...