Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landing gear. At week's end the ships were restored to service. The mishap, said bland Imperial, was "due to the unusual state ol the airdrome surface, not to a mechanical defect." Nineteen-year-old Croydon is one of the oldest and best-tended air fields on earth...
...Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...
...Brooklyn Children's Museum, youngsters learn about the earth, minerals, birds, animals, plants, insects, geography, history. They observe families of mice, model in clay, peer through microscopes, take apart models of flowers under the supervision of adult "docents.''* Patrons may borrow exhibits to take home. Only rule is that they must handle them with clean hands. The museum provides soap and water...
From a college European history: "Among them Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States own or control something like three-fourths of the earth's surface. . . . They constitute the real world powers and are the Haves. . . . Japan, Italy and Germany . . . although territorially no match for the four giants . . . are inhabited by spirited peoples by no means willing to accept their present inferiority as if it had been ordered for all time by a divine decree...
...Your Wings, in simple, first-person, instructor-to-student dialogue, Jordanoff told how to fly, prudently prefacing the course with lectures on the history of flying, aerodynamics and how to use a parachute. Through 27 chapters he guided the student off the ground, through rudimentary flight, and back to earth again; told him about motors, propellers, wing lift, etc. ; took off with him again for turns, climbs, glides, later for stalls and spins and aerobatics; sent him soloing; proceeding thence through discussions of "avigation," instruments, fuels, radio, accessories...