Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was again no U. S. entry, possibly because the race was suddenly called for June instead of September as in the past. Entered were twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from Brussels toward Germany. Two days later all had jolted to earth with Poland's Polonia II and Belgium's Belgica farthest (both about 870 mi.) from the start. But Germany hotly filed a protest and a demand that the race be run over, claiming that Czechoslovakian planes had forced down two of the three German balloons. Czechoslovakia replied that...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are entirely consumed by the burning friction of their swift flight through the atmosphere. Meteorites are bodies which are big enough to survive their flaming passage and land on earth. Meteoriticist Nininger was born 50 years ago in Kansas, in which a greater number of important meteorite finds have been made than in any other U. S. State. He started his scientific career, however, as a biologist. One night in 1923, while he was a biology professor at McPherson College in Kansas, he saw a shooting star so bright that he was sure some...
...Windsor's nuptials were more notorious than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere on earth this June than the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), slim, Harvard oarsman and the lissome sportswoman who becomes his bride. But position and pulchritude were not so responsible for the Roosevelt-Du Pont wedding's capturing public imagination as the fact that it culminated as bang-up a love...
...existence, freedom to publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...
Shown at the Writers' Congress were selections of The Spanish Earth, a film of the civil war, taken on, the Loyalist side of the front lines, the work of a gifted young Dutch cameraman, Joris Ivens, who with Hemingway spent several weeks on the battlefields and whose picture is being prepared for distribution by John Dos Passos and Archibald MacLeish...