Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wings against roseate Old Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran, who was lightly marked for Purging because of his vote against the Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling New Dealer by calling him "Brother Hilliard." Last week young "Brother Hilliard" crashed to earth as old Pat McCarran soared off witha 3-to-1 majority. Against Democrat McCarran in November will run Republican Tasker Lowndes Oddie, old-time two-termer (1921-33), whom Senator McCarran beat in landsliding 1932 by only 1,964 votes...
...earth-shaking thud of thousands of large feet goose-stepping at Nürnberg; gargantuan mass drills with shovels, guns, artillery, war planes, brass bands, dumbbells; a solemn annual service for dead Nazi martyrs-these the world hardly noticed, for everywhere people asked "War?" and tried to read the answer in the Nürnberg speeches of Big Nazis...
Thus ''driven to changes below the surface," Dr. Brown offered the following hypothesis : astronomers believe that certain stars pulsate bodily, and it is not unreasonable to suspect that the earth, a star, pulsates too. If there is a uniform contraction and expansion of the entire globe a raising of five inches in the crust is sufficient to slow down the earth and account for the maximum lengthening of the day which has so far been observed. The process of expansion, said Dr. Brown, might conceivably take place if there were a layer of material near the earth...
Experts last week admitted that John Casterline's idea was scientifically sound, for modern tree healers have been injecting medicines directly into the trunks as well as packing fertilizers into the earth surrounding the roots. However, they withheld judgment pending further investigation. Said John Casterline, who has been doctoring trees for 20 years: "My wife and I decided to devote our lives to the curing of trees. We believe [our work] to be a great success. We have cured the chestnut blight . . . and in addition we believe we can cure most of the other tree diseases...
...people on the earth stood on one another's shoulders, they would make nine chains to the moon. For most citizens, that thought is likely to be more alarming than otherwise, but for Richard Buckminster Fuller it is profoundly reassuring: it suggests "the littleness of our universe" when viewed by an unfrightened mind, and it reminds him that man has been made too conscious of his physical smallness to be aware of his own powers and potentialities...