Word: earthbound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That China's 400 earthbound millions may surge into Communism has frequently been predicted. But what if China's millions should turn to Jesus Christ? Last week an expert Christian wrote: "China is the ripest evangelistic field in the world at the present time...
...declared: "I happen to know that [since his death] he could have gone very high, but deliberately remained behind in order to keep contact with the earth and influence the spiritualist movement." Thus did she refute recent testimony by a spiritualist medium that the soul of Sir Arthur was "earthbound...
Although the maxim (credited to Accursius, 1182-1260) was coined in a day when man was earthbound, it has survived to provide endless argument on the question of what constitutes trespass by aircraft. Today virtually all jurists agree that a property owner has control of the space above only to the extent that he can actually make use of it, or for protecting the rights which he enjoys on the surface.* Thereby hangs a variety of interpretations which threaten to become more confusing with the increase of airports and aircraft...
...foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared his son Adrian: "There is no question that my father will speak to us just as he did before he passed over. . . . My [parents] were devoted to each other at all times...