Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pasadena, Calif. At Meadi, near Cairo, Egypt, the Shumann engine produces 60 h.p. Its reflectors cover an acre. If an efficient and practical sun engine can be built, its sun source of energy is not only free but stupendous in quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching the whole earth each day equals the caloric value of 507 billion tons of coal...
...agent. It may be used in anesthesia or in the cure of sleeping-sickness, in fueling or fighting fires, in blowing up cities or in dyeing cloth. Its first and perhaps most important use, however, is in supplying the pressure that forces crude oil from the bowels of the earth to the surface. When local gas pressure is exhausted, further working of an oil well is almost prohibitively expensive...
...Christendom is to be reborn the Church must be supernational. What formal world-wide organization it may require I cannot forecast, but certain it is that the Christendom which once was has gone, for worse or for better. A new Christendom can only be supplied by an earth-wide fellowship exemplifying the unity of mankind in Christ and linking all the people of the world...
...however pessimistic were Dr. Coffin's words, the Scots who heard him were not depressed, for the day before they had taken part in the most important Scottish ecclesiastical event in 87 years, had shown their willingness to work toward the "earth-wide fellowship" mentioned by Dr. Coffin. The event had been the reunion of the long separated Established Church (Auld Kirk) and the United Free Church, both of which originated in the stern predestinationism brought to Scotland by John Knox from Geneva's John Calvin...
Fire Fighter. Unknown is the flyer who last week saved Farmer Walter Schiffer's home at Evansville, Ind. from burning. The barn and smokehouse had burned to earth, the granary was throwing its flames at the house. Neighbors were carrying furniture and gear outdoors. Then-the flyer appeared. All stopped to gape while he, intelligent, flew between house and granary 40 times, fanning the flames against the wind until they died down. Then off he went about his own business...