Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tennessee is pleased with itself over Luke Lea; the things he says in his papers, the politics he professes and practices; his background of notable social tradition; his vitality. He stands six feet four, is inclined to athletics, has lived on earth some 50 years. Tennessee sent him triumphantly to the U. S. Senate some ten years after he was graduated from University of the South in 1899. Col. Luke Lea is a great public personality...
...Under the insinuating blandishments of their words lurks the gravest error, which tends totally to undermine the very foundations of the Catholic faith. . . . All men understand . . . the duty of believing absolutely God's revelations and obeying His commands. For this purpose, Christ founded the Church on earth. All those who profess themselves Christians cannot but believe that one Church and one Church alone, was founded by Christ. When we enquire . . . which this Church is . . . then all are not in agreement...
...greatest novels, "'Justice was done' . . . and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. . . ." should be taken to Westminster Abbey, burial place of famed Englishmen, preserved in a vault. His heart, removed from his body before cremation, was buried in the earth at Dorchester...
Clarence Duncan Chamberlin was twice displeased last week by leaks. A fuel pump failed on his Bellanca plane and brought him and his companion Roger Q. Williams down to earth. Soon they went up again, circled, idled, wandered back and forth, wasting time, waiting. A tiny hole drained tiny drops from their gas tank. They came back to earth again 51 hours, 52 minutes, 24 seconds later, defeated by this tiny hole. They failed by half an hour and seven seconds to supplant the German world's record (TIME, Aug. 15) for endurance flying...
...slim neck of earth that connects the Western continents two airplanes waited. They were the two most famous active airplanes in the world today, the Spirit of St. Louis and the Nungesser-Coli. They waited while their pilots were shaking hands in Panama. Col. Lindbergh (resting for several days) greeted with the most energetic approval Frenchmen Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, first airmen to fly the South Atlantic. (TIME, Oct. 24.) Panama City displayed the triple red white and blues of France, of Panama, of the U. S. Unwearied by the recent outburst of welcome to the northern flyer Panamans...