Word: earth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
...fissure in the earth split the farm of Harley Robertson, soon widened as its sides fell in, became a canyon 200 ft. deep, its bottom crawling, heaving, puffing. It swiftly swallowed 20 acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached...
...thoroughly commonplace star, is only eight light-minutes from earth, a fact which sufficiently explains its unique importance to mankind. Yet observation of the sun like that of other celestial bodies is impeded by the distorting effect of earth's atmosphere. An observer at an altitude of 25,000 ft., however, has two-thirds of the effective atmosphere beneath him. To that altitude a Pan-American Grace Airliner mounted over Peru during the total eclipse of last June (TIME, June 14) and from it Major Albert W. Stevens, stratosphere balloonist, made unusual photographs of the eclipsed sun which...
...Spanish Earth (Contemporary Historians, Inc.). Last winter Writers John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish and Ernest Hemingway (see p. 66) decided that one way they might intelligently serve the Spanish Leftists was by producing a film showing the Leftists' version of the origin and progress of the revolution. Finding that little of the source material available in the U. S. could adequately supply them with the dramatic and pictorial qualities they had in mind, Messrs. Dos Passos and MacLeish formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway...
...returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor-at-Law, and after that made his first hit movie, Scarface. Since then he has made I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Hi, Nellie, Bordertown, Black Fury, Dr. Socrates, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Good Earth. Pasteur won him the Academy prize and furnished a precedent for Zola. Muni now gets about $100,000 a picture...