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Word: earthed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know a couple of old Salvation Army Captains, Englishmen, who, during the Indian famine of twenty-five years ago, fed three times the number of starving human beings that Hoover fed during the World War. And these unknown famine relief agents did not have the richest nation on earth sending food to them by the shipload and shoveling out money by the barrel to maintain an enormous organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Ivan Skripnik took up the knife. Gregory Romashevsky said: "I am strangely torn between the desire of my soul for heaven, and the desire of my body for earth. Please pray once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Johnists' | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst earthquake of recent South American times, an earthquake that shook the needle of Harvard's seismograph in New England almost 6,000 miles away, broke submarine telegraph cables off the coast of Norway. The outward focus of the disturbance was a new volcano which had burst like an inflamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Quake | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Relief trains rushing to aid the stricken Mendoza vintners encountered great fissures in the earth, filled with spouting, boiling water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Quake | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

World Divided. Convening in Minneapolis, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association declared that in ten years the Christian World will be divided between Roman Catholics, Modernists and Fundamentalists. Other divisions of Christianity would "largely perish from the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old Issue | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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