Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meanwhile the "Trader" cackled harmless and sometimes intriguing remarks. Example: "The first elephant ever I shot had ivories that weighed 140 pounds. And if you think I wasn't the most tickled youngster on earth, why, dispel the rumor...
Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico and onetime Morgan partner, was jarred and jiggled, last week, in the drawing room of the U. S. Embassy by a series of earth tremors which continued for 28 minutes, but did not terminate a conversation which he was carrying on with Dr. John C. Merriam of the Carnegie Institute. Though the Embassy suffered no shattering damage a large and drafty crack opened in the wall of the Ambassador's bedroom...
...situation is one which the football coach does not often encounter. Instead of beseeching his men to keep off pro to stay in college he has to beg them to neglect their work to accomplish the same end. Public spirited members of the faculty are wondering why on earth they gave that football man an A instead of an E. The student body is holding informal parties in the rooms of the erring football men in vain attempts to lower the abominated high grades. Everybody, with three exceptions, is doing his best to remedy the disgraceful situation. Meanwhile the three...
...water were an animate being, its most significant characteristic would be the herd instinct. Man and Mother Earth have conspired to keep water cooped up in bottles, pipes, dams, lakes and oceans. But whenever Man or Mother Earth makes a slip, a Water runs madly to meet fellow Waters. Last week there was a revolt of Water in the San Francisquito Canyon and the Santa Clara Valley, 50 miles north of Los Angeles. The St. Francis dam had long been a symbol of hate in Southern California...
This is the second severe earth tremor registered at the Peabody Museum in the past ten days...