Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This force is comparable to those which occur nearly ninety-five miles within the earth. Under such a pressure new forms of bismuth and helium have been developed...
...terrible sensation," pilot Stevens declared. "We grabbed each other to see if we were both unhurt. Neither of us had a scratch. Then we slid down to earth...
...lonosphere Observatory of the University, after a four-year shutdown, has resumed its radio investigations of the little-understood deep blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth's atmosphere a hundred or so miles from the ground, and which enable long-distance wireless communication...
...before thee. Fix thy gaze at what is before thee, and pierce not thy host with many glances, for it is an abomination to force thy notice upon him. . . ." From a hymn to the Nile: "Praise to thee, O Nile, that issuest forth from the earth and comest to nourish the dwellers in Egypt. Secret of movement, a darkness in the daytime. . . . When he arises earth rejoices and all men are glad; every jaw laughs and every tooth is uncovered." From a poet 20 centuries before Christ: ."Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange...
...There is no reason on earth why a man or a body of men should not contribute of its money or of its life to support a cause or to support a corner of humanity. But theirs is no right to cause other men to smart under the burden of their hypocrisy...