Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present day market. Any excuse other than an extreme out-of-the-wayness would be difficult to find for the publication of Mr. Cooper's Albanian Tales. The fact that both the people and language of Albania are about as obscure as those of any country on earth is the only element of definite economic value possessed by this collection: that is, if one leaves out of account the expensive binding, and a number of excellent wood cuts by Ilse M. Bischoff...
...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
October 19 is the date set for the first of the well known "open nights" at the Harvard College Observatory. The opening lecture is to be on "The Rotation of the Earth and its Peculiarities" given by Professor E. W. Brown, of Yale University...
...Evolution of the Earth", Professor Shapely, Geology Lecture Room...
Moon. At the time the International Match Co. sprang into being (1923), the Swedish Match Co. announced a curious statistic. It assured the dubious that match boxes, produced in eight months at its factories, placed end to end, would reach from the earth to the moon...