Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before, the last laugh may fall to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Senate may pass the Bill, but many observers believed no power on earth could hold Congress in session ten days after that, until the President's anticipated pocket veto expires. In that case Congress might never have a chance to override, even if the lobbyists were strong enough to round up two-thirds of both Houses...
...field, landed normally, few minutes later took off again. While he was in midair, watchers on the ground saw the upper wing begin to revolve like the vanes of a gyro. This time George Townson landed in the steep, space-saving drop characteristic of a gyro, came to earth gently...
...sounded queer. On board were a crew of three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president of Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground. All on board were killed. KLM officials, but few other aeronautical experts, thought that lightning might have ignited the fuel tanks while the airliner was in the cloud...
...Psyttaleia's headless Ceres has occupied a niche over the main entrance of the Academy's later building at Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble. To protect passersby...
...beginning of his pursuit of vivacious, learned, blonde Suzanne Curchod. 20-year-old Gibbon stalked about the neighboring fields "compelling the peasants to agree at the sword's point that Mile Curchod was the most beautiful person on earth." But when, after Suzanne had accepted him, his father refused to consider a penniless foreigner for a daughter-in-law, Gibbon took only two hours to admit his father was right, a crisis later summed up in his famed line: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...