Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...market is incident to placing of such a large amount of securities and will be speedily adjusted as the bonds find a final resting place in the hands of permanent holders. On every moderate recession they offer a great opportunity to obtain profitable investment in the safest securities on earth. Boston Transcript...
...crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling...
After a brief description of personal experiences in London where he saw the first Zeppelin brought to earth "white hot and bigger than an ocean liner," and in the training camps of England and France, where men told him of "periods of thirty days they had spent soaked to the skin in rain and mud," Mr. Eddy went on to a description of the Y. M. C. A. hut work...
...John Huss. 7. Christ lay in death's dark prison. Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 8. Come, Holy Spirit, come (Veni, Sancte Spiritus). 9. Nunc Dimittis. Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 10. The Lord's Prayer. Choral Prelude, Samuel Scheidt, 1587-1659. 11. Sanctus. 12. From heaven above to earth 1 come. Choral Prelude, Pachelbel, 1653-1706, 13. To Shepherds as they watched by night (original folk-song melody). 14. A mighty fortress is our God. Choral Fantasia, J. S. Bach...
...known, Meeker was flying alone when the accident occurred, but according to the latest report his engine did not stall as was stated at first. After having reached a height of about 3,000 feet he undertook to spiral towards the ground. When a few hundred feet from earth he should have righted the machine and planed down, but either because he lost control of the machine, or became dizzy or ill, he failed to do so and plunged to the ground at a speed of an hundred miles an hour. Mr. Meeker has received the decoration which...