Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
Seven and a half weeks later the land he saw was not Asia but what is now Canada, an impassable barrier of earth, mountain and forest. When his reports were compared with those of his contemporary, Columbus, invincible explorers of Portugal, Spain, France and Britain knew that one must sail beyond or around that barrier to get at the riches of the East. The four-century search for a northwest passage had begun...
...State which seven others and the Vatican (de facto) recognize as the newest of the Earth's States is, on the whole, naturally wealthier than the State it must conquer to survive. Leftist Spain has the mercury mines of Almaden. But these are more than matched by Rightist Spain's coal, iron, copper. The country's olive orchards, cork forests, vineyards are about evenly split between the two warring groups. The Leftists control the orange groves in the eastern province of Valencia, and thus the principal Spanish export in normal times. But the Rightists own Spain...
Saints are discovered by people on earth through prayers. The Roman Catholic Church attests sanctity after rigorous investigation. Hundreds of Catholics during the past year addressed prayers to Fray Junipero to intercede for them, and hundreds wrote Bishop Scher that their prayers had been answered, mostly by cures of ailments. This was enough to set in motion Fray Junipero's cause for beatification, preparatory to which the Church, if it found he had been responsible for miracles, would give him the title "Venerable." Appointed Vice-Postulator, or working advocate of the cause, was Franciscan Father Augustine Hobrecht of Santa...
...accidental. As one of the many field workers in the Hayden Planetarium-Grace expedition, directed by Dr. Clyde Fisher, of the Hayden Planetarium, New York, Major Stevens was primarily interested in getting high enough to photograph the spectacular course of the moon's shadow as it raced along the earth and cloud tops. His observations were made near Lima, Peru, in a Pan American Grace Airways plane...