Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself. There was nothing to worry about, said Sagel, because a Czechoslovak worker in the tunnel testified that he had seen the gold. The next report to reach the President, from Chief Pino, was slightly less encouraging. Arrin Thorpe, one of the two missing prospectors had been run to earth, had revealed that he had contributed $6,000 to van Steck's treasure hunt, but had not seen a speck of gold...
...Soviet-to-California-via-the-North-Pole flights of the Russians "absolutely confirm" the theory that the earth is flat, said eccentric Wilbur Glen Voliva, Zion City, Ill. clergyman. He was unprepared to concede that they could have flown over the South Pole had they wished. "There is no South Pole," said Wilbur Glen Voliva...
...last time to his home, thence at midmorning to Arkansas' Capitol to lie in state, thence to the First Methodist Church where his funeral sermon was solemnly pronounced. Thunderheads were gathering as his casket was carried from the church. At Roselawn Cemetery his body was committed to the earth in the midst of an electric storm with lightning crashing and 2,000 mourners standing drenched in the rain...
Died. Guglielmo Marconi, 67, Italian-Irish inventor of wireless communication, Nobel Prizewinner (1909), Italian marquese and senator, president of the Royal Academy of Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome. His current inventions were for short-wave focused radio beams; his last public service, the Pope's earth-circling short-wave broadcasting station...
...bright group of the Pleiades, near the celestial figure of amorous Orion, has been a source of wonder and speculation to shepherds and seers since the dawn of history. Telescopes reveal thousands of stars in the cluster, moving away from Earth at six miles per second (present distance: nearly two quadrillion miles). To Babylonians the naked eye stars were ''The Many Little Ones," to American Indians "The Seven Brothers." In some folklore they are called "The Seven Who Now Are Six.'' as though an ancient memory persisted that the dim star, which can be seen only...