Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into figures and said that the U. S. had given between six and seven billion dollars, in pensions and gratuities, to service men of the Civil War. For service men of the last War, five billions have been set aside in a decade, he said. "All the countries on earth in all their history, all put together, have not done as much...
Boats placidly puffing from bank to bank, street cars clanging across cities are too slow for man's impatience. He must blast tunnels under peaceful rivers, bore subways through the solid earth that his transit may be measured in swift seconds. Men willingly give up sunshine and fresh air to work in the dark, dank underground; they will not willingly give up their lives. Last week Thomas J. Curtis, International President of the Tunnel and Subway Constructors Union, General Manager of the Building and Allied Trades Compensation Bureau, told the Welfare Council of Manhattan of the dangers...
...George White sat optimistically astride his invention. He pedalled furiously to force the wings to a rate of 100 flaps per minute, cast off from the car, rose gracefully in air. Like some prehistoric monster, the ornithopter, wings glistening in sunlight, described a gigantic parabola and came, back to earth. It had traveled eight-tenths of a mile in one minute and 36 seconds (rate of 30 m.p.h...
Having painted in almost every conceivable manner almost everything which lies upon the surface of the earth, painters are still at liberty to go under the sea for subjects. One such is Olive Earle, whose more decorative paintings of its teeming and extraordinary life were shown last week in Brooklyn. Her Bermuda group contained an oil canvas of the strange Deep Sea Squirrel Fish; from California, she had retrieved Kelp at Santa Catalina; her water colors included a portrait of Sea Anemones, bending in a warm current, and a cool atmospheric painting, Color under...
...performances occupied one hour and twenty minutes each. The first episode attempted to present the paradisiacal scenes in which Christ announced his intentions of coming to earth. Next were shown the three kings, each an allegorical figure; last the shepherds, of whom some talked labor dissatisfaction until the chief shepherd knocked their heads together and they all went to bow down at the creche in which Jesus lay, squealing, with a halo around His head...