Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million million years from now the sun will still be much the same as now, and the earth will still revolve around it. The year will be a little longer and the climate quite a lot colder, while the rich accumulated stores of coal, oil and forests will be long since burned...
...Nevertheless, that is no reason why our descendants should not exist. Perhaps the earth will be unable to support quite so many people as now, perhaps fewer will want to live on it. Mankind, three million times as old, may be three million times as wise...
...Last year he used two steel cylinders, equipped with small platinum balls, pendent in a 35 foot pit. By measuring their mutual attraction and regarding the earth's pull as a constant, he could discover a unit in which to compute the earth's attraction. This time his steel cylinders are equipped with small glass balls...
Rain turned the red Georgia earth to clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...
...particular interest to the Indian were the summer and winter ceremonies, for his life was ordered to a great extent in conformity to the changing seasons. The beginning of the new year was the first day of Spring when the new life from Mother Earth commenced to manifest itself. Then was the time for the planting of seed for the food crops. All was accomplished by the dramatization of planting, germination, and growth...