Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first time since civilization has been in possession of the means of transportation to foster commerce, Europe faces actual hunger. Great nations are knowing the failure of sufficient nourishment to feed their peoples. In three years of war the most powerful races of the earth have been reduced from a state of astounding opulence to a condition where their very lives may depend upon their ability to obtain food. In such a condition of universal and terrible lack, which is the forerunner of starvation, the United States, whose resources our rhetoricians are fond of calling unlimited, is called upon...
Professor Woodworth has been in charge of the University seismographic station since 1908. The seismographic is used to detect movements in the earth's crust, and in war to detect the location of hostile batteries, for gun-fire affects the landscape much like an earthquake. The tremors of the crust due to gun-fire can be recorded by this instrument...
...great nations of the earth have entered into the unmeasurable war since the terrible days of August, 1914, save our great nation. All of them have in the war found increased strength, a new vision, a knowledge of their own unsolved ideals. There is no question now as to what England represents, or Germany, or France. In the strength of national unity for a single mighty purpose they have found themselves. The United States alone has rested with its ideals unrealized, without consciousness of its own goal...
...pride of Germany must be bitter and frustrate when she knows that against her are allied all the great freedom-loving and self-governing Powers of the earth. Will she find her own defeat worth all the blood and iron it cost her, all her wrecked fortune, her ruined strength...
...Sherwood '18. It is in a prologue and two acts, and deals with the efforts of the Spirit of the Movies to gain recognition among the arts on Mt. Olympus. Jupiter is called upon to decide, and professing ignorance of the movies, is led to the earth by the Spirit of the Movies to see them and judge their claims to a place among the arts. While on earth Jupiter meets and falls in love with one Vera, and together they elope to the South Sea Islands, unaware that during the entire time they are being "spotted" by the camera...