Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...
Next day, like a startled old lady, Mother Earth kept on trembling. There were aftershocks in Baffin Bay. In Panama, 17 shocks disrupted communications, shook clown a few ramshackle houses, scared natives. The third day, the Lindberghs, asleep in the Azores, were roused at 3 a. m. by more shocks. The fourth day there were temblors in Portland, Ore., in Italy's Abruzzi region on the Adriatic Sea. At last on the fifth day old Mother Earth seemed to have calmed down...
Last week the last of the Brothers Ringling, ill and aging John, who had owned more circuses than any other man on earth and whose fortune was once estimated to be $50,000,000, hobbled into a Federal Court in Brooklyn to testify on the loan that brought him low. The firm that held his note was in bankruptcy. At a prize fight in 1929, Mr. Ringling related, he met William M. Greve, president of New York Investors, Inc. (realty), who agreed to lend him $1,700,000. As collateral Mr. Ringling put up one-half of all his circus...
...Landing, said concerning the bridge: "I do not like to oppose the plan to bridge the river at this point because I think the bridge itself to be a benefit to the public. The proposed shift of the river bed, involving the removal of such a large amount of earth at such great expense, and spoiling the present beautiful and familiar curve, is, in my opinion, a great waste of money for the questionable advantage of allowing faster driving along the straightened parkway...
Stand up, O homing phantom, stand up intact and declare The goodness of earth the greatest good you found, Ere the wind jolts you, and you vanish like the foam...