Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Land of the Soviets. A bimotored all-metal monoplane, Land of the Soviets', flew eastward from Moscow last week to circumnavigate the earth in 40 days. Her crew of five expected to cross Siberia, the northern Pacific along the Aleutian Islands, south to San Francisco, across the U. S. to New York, to Europe via the North Atlantic...
...revolved in its 25-day cycle, the beam of the vast sunspot which erupted from its surface (photosphere) late in July was again to touch the earth this week. At that time the spot was 33,000 miles long by 20,000 miles wide. On earth, it caused severe magnetic storms which affected electric light and power services, confused telegraphs, telephones, radio...
...TIME, Aug 12), made tinder for forest fires. Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were, as students of government weather reports know,* light snows last winter, early thaws last spring, winds carrying water vapor away from the coasts instead of inland...
...Graf Zeppelin, steel blue in the floodlights, was trimmed to circumnavigate the globe. Marines, sailors and Boy Scouts relinquished the ropes which held her to earth. Up she nosed, and away, a steady-moving monster quickly lost in the darkness. Manhattan watchers heard her motors, saw her slummer through the murk. She circled the Statue of Liberty before heading...
...shooting star; a mass of matter from celestial space striking the earth's atmosphere and bursting into flame...