Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeling which you are now demonstrating! [pandemonium]. You will all fulfill your oath! (Ja! Ja! Heil! Sieg Heil!) You will ALL fulfill your oath-all of you, from Königsberg to Hamburg and down to Vienna! You do so in deepest emotion. German compatriots- NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN SHAKE...
...Cephenomyia pratti Hunter) is a small, blunt-headed insect which sprays its eggs into the nostrils and throats of deer, scattering them like tiny bombs while on the wing. In scientific journals as well as the lay press, the botfly has been widely publicized as the fastest thing on earth. It has been credited with speeds over 800 m.p.h.-faster than the fastest airplanes (over 400 m.p.h.), than the fastest birds (over 100 m.p.h.), than the fastest land animal, the cheetah (70 m.p.h.). Most of this publicity seems to have sprung from the reports of Dr. Charles Henry Tyler Townsend...
...Best actress: Luise Rainer as the Chinese wife, Olan, in The Good Earth...
Most newsworthy of the five playwrights is Elmer Rice who, by coming into the group, re-enters the theatre after dramatically forswearing it when two of his plays were panned in the fall of 1934. At that time Rice called first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," characterized a Manhattan critic as "a senile alcoholic." Before his sputtering exit, Elmer Rice, Inc. had produced six plays, one of which (Counsellor-at-Law) was successful enough to give him a huge profit...
When the yacht Velero III, which by express order of its owner is referred to as a cruiser, never as a yacht, tied up in San Diego Harbor one day last week, there disembarked an eccentric man, and after him some of the earth's most eccentric animals. The man was Captain George Allan Hancock, multimillionaire California oil and real-estate operator, musician, aviator, scientist, explorer...