Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry when she romped among orange blossoms of Monterey, Calif. Later when a lovely coed, she met an earnest young man who was working his way through Stanford University. They were married, and her name became Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover. She followed her husband to the ends of the earth. In China, in 1900, they lived for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and sandbags (Boxer Rebellion). Together they translated from medieval Latin the first work ever written on mining. In England, she brought up two sons in a home which became a rendezvous for U. S. citizens...
...Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), who first buried his instruments at sea level, then flew them far aloft by kites, finally lowering them to a considerable depth in the pure waters of a high-altitude lake.* And their conclusions, announced last week, paralleled Dr. Millikan's: bombarding the earth from the surrounding universe are some hitherto unknown rays, of submicroscopic wavelength, which far surpass even the gamma rays of radium in their power to penetrate matter. They will pass through a block of steel three feet thick, through six feet of lead...
When he announced his "Millikan Rays" to the world last year, Dr. Millikan did not hazard a guess at their source. They seemed to him to be coming at the earth in all directions. In the Swiss report of last week, however, it was stated that the greatest "penetration radiation" had been detected when the pit on Mont Monch yawned directly up at the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda. This observation fitted in with a theory that the Millikan Rays are the result of atoms being disintegrated during the formation of new stars, for the constellations named all contain spiral...
...These experiments must be made as far as possible out of reach of known sources of radioactivity, such as radium ores in the earth's crust, water and atmosphere...
...national championship last June. It included the sentences: "The pages of this sacred document are fast crumbling away. . . .Baptized by our fathers' blood, consecrated by our mothers' tears, dedicated to immortality by a free people, may our Constitution ever stand as the emblem of 'Peace on earth, good will towards...