Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic party who are opposing the nomination of Smith for President, but I am quite sure that if the real truth was known it is not because he is 'a Wet,' as they claim, but it is for some other reason. ... Of all the people on earth, those of the South should not raise the religious issue against Governor Smith because he is a Roman Catholic, or against any other man because of his religious faith. . . . During the dark and trying days of reconstruction when the Democratic party of the South was on the verge of dissolution...
Moreover, the cultivated man can ill afford to forego the lifetime pleasure of seeing nature with his eyes open. Ideally geology should be the avocation of every college graduate. During his daily walks, from railway train, steamer, or motorcar, he can see the earth evolving; he can see her majestic rhythms, her wonderful adaptations to life, her profound control over human history. Such permanent enrichment of life comes to the man who elects a full course in general geology. Thousands of Harvard graduates can testify to the truth of this statement. It must be remembered, too, that geology...
...provision that two of the six courses approved for concentration in geology may be taken in allied departments. Within the Division of Geology the four required courses may be so grouped as to stress any one of three phases of the broad subject; the evolution of the earth and its inhabitants; the nature and origin of rock formations, including ore and valuable constituents of the earth's crust; and the physical environment of life, including climate. Under such conditions concentration in geology coupled of course with the distribution of studies now required, offers an excellent training for citizenship and practical...
...pointed out that men who have concentrated in physics or chemistry are best fitted to become professional geologists. Their real specialization would begin in graduate school, and their mastery of geology would become all the more certain because of the deeper knowledge of the fundamental sciences on which earth science is based...
...Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action and atmosphere of Decadence are typified in a single meteorological description from it: "During the daytime an opal cloud of acrid smoke rose in a column above the earth and at night the bald moon looked unpleasantly red, and the stars, shorn of their rays by the mist, loomed out like the heads of copper nails, while the water in the river reflected the troubled sky and gave one the impression of a stream of thick, subterranean smoke...