Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday. March 10, 5:55 p. m. In the residential section of Long Beach, Calif, many citizens are clustered about the radio. 'The TIME' broadcast is about to end. A deafening, ominous thunder drowns the voice of the announcer! The earth rocks, heaves and rolls with violent force! (voices scream, 'EARTHQUAKE...
That was not all. At 3 a. m. a carpenter had gotten out of bed and, as is his habit, began the day reading aloud from the Bible. This day he began at the beginning of the Old Testament, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." After he had finished, by prearrangement another North Presbyterian parishioner elsewhere took up the reading. Throughout the day, a businessman on a trolley, a stenographer in the street, a group of old ladies in a home, at scheduled times took up 130 separate stints of enunciating psalms, proverbs, laws, lists...
Nine meteors that never touched the earth have been analyzed and their constituent elements classified by astronomers of the Harvard Observatory. A momentary flash of light as these shooting stars passed overhead, fifty to seventy miles above the observer, was all that was needed for this scientific detective work...
...willingness to work a little harder than is necessary simply to get by. Should a student decide not to go on in this field after he graduates, he will not regret having spent three brief years scratching the surface of a deposit of facts and interesting problems about the Earth which have been accumulating for over a billion and a half years, nor will he be anything but thankful for his acquaintances with some of the foremost geologists of the country who are now teaching at Harvard
...said earlier today, I see a great future for the airplane in the stratosphere. I would say today that the limit of the airplane's endurance is about 12 miles above the earth. If it had not been for the vibration and the fact that I did not feel capable of attempting the design of such a plane, I might have used one myself...