Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Recent issue (TIME, Sept. 16), Religious Department, stated Voliva stanch Fundamentalist believing earth flat. Get posted. Fundamentalists do not believe this...
...Mather, professor of Geology, and geologist of the United States Geological survey, on the geologic history of mankind, presenting from the point of view of a geologist the known facts and scientific theories concerning the origin of the race and its prehistoric distribution upon the face of the earth...
...more cocky with each passing year, but to my mind that is the most hopeful sign visible in that country. No race is worth its salt that isn't cocky. Americans are cocky. The British are cocky. The French, Germans, Italians and other leading peoples of the earth are cocky, and it was precisely this trait that put them where they...
...embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity of life and there is a certain justice in the fact that there now undoubtedly exists that "Greatest Show on Earth," as which every circus has billed itself from the time when the first tent rose, on the first lot. Mr. Ringling will continue, however, to operate his various shows as separate units...
...experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree...