Word: earthbound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year as the Jewish Passover. Jesus (says Agabus-Graves) was endowed with supernatural powers of mind and will, and he did in fact conquer death. But, far from ascending into Heaven after the Resurrection, Jesus was condemned to expiate his sins (of blasphemous pride) by becoming a ghost, an "earthbound spirit...
...began Barnaby while contributing a weekly wordless strip to Collier's. Barnaby is frankly addressed to adults, often surprises Johnson by appealing to children too. The reason, he guesses, is that children like to side with Barnaby Baxter against Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, archetypical pragmatists against whose earthbound minds the Barnaby strip is directed...
...Your story "Credit for the Doughboy" [TIME, April 10] stirred the ex-infantryman in me. . . . When the war is finally won, there will be no doubt in the civilian mind that the dirtiest, toughest, most grueling part of the job was done by the infantry and artillery and other earthbound forces. TIME, in its straightforward accounts of the fight, has taught this to many, including the pilot and naval officer of your article...
Snooping for Reds in Government jobs, Texas' unesthetic Representative Martin Dies lumbered smack into esthetic John Bovingdon, 53, $5,600-a-year economic analyst for the new Office of Economic Warfare. Forgetting both Reds and grammar, earthbound Martin Dies cried: "[Bovingdon's] record and career as a ballet dancer is well known...
With the last two principles the airlines agree almost unanimously. Of the first, the now air-minded railroads, steamship lines, bus companies and trucking firms are contemptuous. Many of the 224 applications for new air routes piling up before CAB have been made by some of the biggest earthbound transportation companies. And an ever-expanding lobby in Washington is now working on Congress to revise the Civil Aeronautics Act specifically to permit such carriers to compete...