Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become, their thought having undergone a long evolution similar to the growth of religious thought from tribal superstition, through literal anthropomorphism, to transcendent spirituality. . . . Simultaneously with my third lecture, Swiss scientists corroborated and added to my recent findings on mysterious rays of excessively short wavelength which impinge upon the earth from the surrounding universe...
Briefly stated, the most important conjecture is that early in the history of the juvenile earth there was a single continent composed essentially of a granite crust floating on a glassy basaltic substratum. This unique continent was domed and furrowed in response to strains due chiefly to contraction of the cooling earth and to decrease in rotational velocity because of tidal retardation. "At the close of the Paleozoic Era, the east-west geosyncline of the northern hemisphere was intensely crumpled by the sliding-together of the North Polar and the Equatorial dome. The result was the Appalachian-Hercynian system...
Pending publication of such data, we may welcome "Our Mobile Earth" as a stimulating contribution, well designed to provoke geologists to a new examination of many of the fundamental tenets of their science. To any one interested in the evolution of the physical environment which has played so large a part in the history of life upon the globe, it will prove to be exceedingly interesting reading...
...Pacific Island collection, an assortment of 80 war clubs, most of them previously stored in the basement for lack of display space, are now on exhibition. Grass skirts, hand looms, and shark-teeth spears 16 feet long are also being shown. Some dancemasks made of human skulls, gum, earth, and lime, are a unique feature of the collection...
...page of this book must have presented difficulties. "English Version" of course signifies "translation"--Wendell's translation of a ninth-century narrative of Eginhard "with the constant aid of Teulet's French version." The word "Translation" in the title does not even signify the wafting of two saints from earth to heaven, but the theft of their bones from the Roman tomb in which they were interred, their stealthy removal from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne...