Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passengers, mostly Britons going home for the holidays, the Imperial Airways transport Apollo drilled through a milky fog over western Belgium. As she neared the coast, between Bruges and Ostend. Apollo groped lower and lower. CRASH! She hit the mast of a wireless station, snapped it off, flopped to earth. FLASH! Flames shot high. Said one of the crew of the wireless station, afterward: "There was not a chance for the passengers or the two pilots. There was not a sound or a cry from the cabin...
...uncertainty surrounding the makeup of the coaching staff next fall has made it necessary for Coach Casey to handle the players himself during the winter. Fundamentals will be stressed with the emphasis on kicking blocking, and tackling, and the soft earth of the cage is expected to furnish satisfactory footing...
...year 1933, in departing into unlamented oblivion, has taken along in its wake a handsome company of notables. The old time elect, the salt of the earth the repositories of 100 per cent Americanism, have departed from the limelight and left only unsavory memories and economic chaos beyond anything Alice might have encountered in Wonderland...
...roam the earth, picking and probing it for remains of vanished animals, men and civilizations, had a successful, if not sensational, year in 1933. An antique world was more generous in giving up its hidden treasures than a modern world in the fourth year of a depression was in supplying cash for researches. Yet as archeologists last week viewed their year in retrospect they could point to a surprising number of diggers at work all over the earth.* Prime doings of diggers during the twelvemonth...
...sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian marketplace, men under Princeton's Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear sifted 23,000 tons of earth, turned up 15,000 coins of ancient Greece and the nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet...