Word: earth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more prosperous neighborhoods, for food that has been left?men competing with rats and stray cats of the street. . . . That's how the celebrated law of supply & demand works under Capitalism! . . . The situation is worse rather than better in State after State, especially in those hells on earth, the bituminous coal mining camps. Next winter offers no hope except a complete breakdown, made more terrible by riots and actual starvation...
...Kill me! Kill me!" screamed the Russian, tearing his collar from his neck and wrenching his shirt open. "Kill me as you killed my country! ... I am committing suicide. I am glad to leave this earth...
...pondered. What was this Gorgulov? They had heard the testimony of a German inventor, a man who makes rockets, hopes to shoot one to the moon. He had testified that, several years ago, Dr. Gorgulov volunteered to be shot to the moon, declaring at the time, "I detest this earth...
...lost themselves. A relief party found seven survivors, 18 starved corpses. Lieut. Greely survived to become Major General Greely, builder of telegraph and cable lines, a trustee of the National Geographic Society. The parties of the other nations added to Man's knowledge of weather-forecasting, navigation and Earth's electromagnetic behavior. After adding up the results, the nations scheduled another Polar Year in 50 years...
...lightning flashes for seven years using a large-size news camera with an extra large lens. For the past two years, with his son's help, he has also been using an insulated metal deck connected with a galvanometer and the ground to measure the nature of the Earth charge after a lightning flash. Jensen's findings have jolted Simpson's theory. He has showed that the lacy branching sometimes points away from the negative point. Offering no new theory, Jensen suggests that Simpson's theories must be revised. Lightning remains mysterious...