Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord, our Heavenly Father, the high and mighty ruler of the Universe, Who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold and bless Thy servant, Franklin, chosen to be the President of the United States...
...evening's lecture will be the second in a series of four free public talks which have been arranged in connection with Geography 36. Last month Captain A. W. Stevens spoke, his subject being "Over Two Continents with an Aerial Camera." The remaining public lectures will be "Mapping the Earth from the Air," by Captain B. C. Hill, on Wednesday, March 22, and "From the Log of a Flying Photographer" by Lieutenant J. F. Phillips, on Wednesday, April...
Having broken a winch while sounding the Caribbean and adjacent Atlantic, Eldridge Reeves Johnson's yacht Caroline put into San Juan, P. R. last week. Immediately Dr. Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian naturalist, sped ashore to report the discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...
...earth were to receive a positive charge, the positive ions would immediately start to move away from it in all directions. Those near the Equator would be caught in the earth's magnetic field at a height varying from two to four hundred kilometers, but near the poles they would be free to move out until equilibrium had been established...
...England is the most sentimental nation on earth . . . 50 to 100 years should be sufficient commemoration by a statue for numbers of men so honored. ... It is a very striking thing that some of the most eminent men, men without whose names English history could not be written, are commemorated in the Abbey ... by a simple inscription on the wall or floor...