Word: earthbound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minded, Earthbound. CAB, under this leadership, has managed to evolve a fairly clear program without serious opposition (though a low ceiling impends). This program is based on four principles: 1) railroads, bus companies, steamship lines and other common carriers must not be allowed to operate airlines (CAB thinks the spirit of the act which created it is opposed to their doing so, on grounds that they would retard aviation's progress because their primary interest has been non-aeronautic); 2) existing and future airlines must not be allowed to monopolize domestic or foreign routes; 3) the less government subsidy...
...E.W.T.), whose earthbound tribulations manage to keep some 20,000,000 U.S. listeners in a weekly tizzy...
...concentrated as they are, are an airman's oyster. Axis ports are few: Bizerte, Tunis, Sousse, Sfax and Gabés-none of them large, all within 200 miles of each other, all within easy bombing range of Allied airdromes. Perhaps aircraft can lay the oyster open for earthbound troops before Tunisia dries...
...weather cleared in Britain and in western Europe. By night the moon was full and by day the mists were gone from R.A.F. and U.S. airdromes. Earthbound for many days, four-engined U.S. Fortresses and Liberators soared up from Britain and flew 180 miles into France-to the Nazi air and railway center at Romilly-Sur-Seine, 65 miles southeast of Paris and the farthest into German Europe that U.S. bombers had yet ventured...
...More probably the original missile from the remote regions of the universe is a proton, a bare hydrogen nucleus moving at terrific velocity with energy of 200 million electron volts. When it strikes the earth's atmosphere it breaks up either by explosion or collision and, like an earthbound skyrocket, forms a spray of smaller particles, called mesotrons. These in turn, colliding with oxygen and nitrogen molecules of the air, produce the electron showers on earth...