Word: earth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Guardsmen's guns kept the peace at strife-torn Le Mars, Iowa, last week while a military court worked up evidence for the civil prosecution of those rural mobsters who, week before, had abducted and outraged Judge Charles Clark Bradley (TIME, May 8). Nearly 100 earth-stained farmers were held prisoner in a military stockade outside town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers...
...frequency of about 20 million cycles a second. If. like thunderstorms and street cars, the source of the static is terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays and Dr. Vesto Melvin Slipher's cosmic radiation (TIME. May 1). Directional studies show that the hiss must originate near the point...
...Captain Neville Lawrence, London broker; in Manhattan. Seeking Divorce. Joan Crawford Fairbanks, cinemactress; from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., cinemactor. Grounds: "grievous mental cruelty"; "a jealous and suspicious attitude" toward her friends; "loud arguments about the most trivial subjects," lasting "far into the night." Resigned. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author (The Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond...
...EARTH TURNS-Gladys Hasty Carroll-Macmillan ($2.50). Farmers have it hard, but some of them, luckily for the rest of society, like the life. U. S. newspaper readers know that George Bernard Shaw was not far wrong when he told a Manhattan audience last month that U. S. farmers are in "armed revolt." But readers of As the Earth Turns will be reminded that farmers' lives are long, farms' lives longer; that depression and prosperity come and go but farming goes on forever. As the Earth Turns, May choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
White sheets bleaching on the hedge, a catch for Maytime whistled along the breeze, a square of redolent earth, a wisp of fine yellow hair blown across the check; these are the objects proper to such...