Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Likening the crust of the earth to a wrinkled layer of solid paraffin floating on an interior of melted paraffin, Reginald A. Daly, Sturgis Professor of Geology, discussed the roots of volcanoes before the American Geophysical Union in Washington Saturday...
While a Barcelona audience was witnessing The Spanish Earth, cinema of the war with comment by U. S. Novelist-Reporter Ernest Hemingway, Barcelona was visited by an air raid. The stocky, mustached novelist, spotted in the audience, was applauded for five minutes by the ecstatic Catalans after the raid was over...
...romantic as its title, neither is this travel book so ponderous as the official title of the one-man expedition it tells about-the Carnegie Institution's Expedition for Study of the Earth's Magnetic Behavior. A mixture of guidebook, adventure story, anthropological study, social & political commentary, covering a 2,000-mile trip through the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil, Journey to Manaos tells next to nothing about terrestrial magnetism. Author Hanson dutifully did the job he went to do, but he records more magnetic attractions above ground than underneath...
...heart, let earth go whirling, and never wonder...
Great Duveneck authority is Woodstock Artist Norbert Heermann, a onetime pupil, who wrote in his introduction to last week's exhibition: "The Painting of our first forgotten master realists, with their courageous technique and their rich, serious tonal quality of simple earth colors, have come into their own again