Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planetesimal Theory of Earth Origin," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Hall...
...Earth Turns (Warner). This semirealistic story of farm life, adapted from Gladys Hasty Carroll's novel, shows New England apple snatchers scratching at their arid meadows, bravely but without much recompense. One full year with the Shaw family and their neighbors makes rural life seem as lively as a cycle on Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love...
Enthusiastic men roaming the earth by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds, probing for remains of vanished animals, men and civilizations. . . . Scholarly men poring over clues in the quiet of their libraries, piecing together forgotten pages of the world's history. . . . Hopeful men searching by air for signs of lost glories. . . . Diggers all, builders all of the never-finished bridge between past and present. Prime news of diggers since the first of the year...
...Planctosiual Theory of the Origin of the Earth," professor Mather, Geological Museum...
...experiments are based upon a generally accepted theory that the cosmic rays (high speed electrons, etc.), which are traveling toward the earth, cause a slight disintegration of the nuclei of the atoms of a substance through which they pass. The collision of a high speed electron with the nucleus knocks electrons out of it. The precipitation of these minute nuclear particles is known as a "shower...