Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snorting little Puss Moth skitter off the field at Purnea, near the Nepal border. The Moth climbed northward up the Kusi River Valley, then carefully wheeled as it approached Nepal. Ahead, across a prodigious frozen ocean of glaciers, crevasses and icy peaks, rose the highest and holiest mountain on earth. Only by trigonometry had man ever measured Mount Everest's vast height (29,140 ft.). Only in his tenacious imagination had he ever scaled...
...acre Vatican City, he is master of millions & millions in wealth. He said last February, "God after accepting the offerings of the shepherds accepted those of the kings. Therefore, He does not disdain material things providing they serve the great aims for which He came to earth, namely, the glory of God and the salvation of souls." For that work the Church, too, must fight Depression...
Most precious description was Flyer Orie William ("Bill") Coyle's. He had "a ringside seat 9,500 ft. above the earth" in a Transcontinental & Western Air mail plane traveling East. Flyer Coyle, 37, quiet, learned accurate observation under stress during War bombardments. His report of what he saw was quickly reported by the Associated Press when he landed at Kansas City: "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed. The meteor appeared out of the northeast, traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. m. Mountain Time, and I was over Adrian, Tex., 45 miles west...
...noticed that an extremely bright, fiery thread extended backward from the main mass before it spread out into the gaseous brilliantly shaded tail, which may have been between 50 and 100 miles long." One million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere each hour, become incandescent from friction. But rarely are astronomers able to photograph the hot spots and analyze the spectra. Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between...
...days later a huge trimotored liner of Britain's Imperial Airwrays, flying from Cologne to London, burst into flames, plummeted to earth near Essen, Germany. All twelve passengers and the crew of three were burned crisp...