Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which the pilots, once aloft, planned to drop away as excess weight...
...Holy Writ, but are continually looking for the miraculous in government, or what would be miraculous if it ever happened--the conduct of a government according to business principles, for example. Most intelligent people regard as preposterous the idea that man was created from the dust of the earth; but they appear to see that all men are created free and equal. They call that proposition a self-evident truth, when by all the teachings of science and history it is neither true nor self-evident...
...side, the southern semicircle of these hurricanes is comparatively harmless. Mariners refer to the northern half as "the dangerous semi-circle," and the southern half as the "navigable semi-circle." They can usually rely upon "riding out" the "navigable semicircle" at anchor. Due to the rotating movement of the earth, all these hurricanes revolve (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) in a manner similar to U. S. western tornadoes, save that, of course, they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside...
...content to worry words and peck at lines. The second has among its members men like John Livingston Lowes whose "Convention and Revolt in Modern Poetry" is so grand an achievement as to take its place in the rank of masterpieces of literary criticism, whose "Two figures of Earth" in a recent number of the Yale Review is stimulating in the vastness of its concept, in the directness of its approach. He spends classroom hours expounding the benefits to be derived from an accurate appreciation of Gray's use of he comma. The third class embraces such men as Bliss...
...doubt if that fashion still obtains. Some of our public action looks as if it did not. "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitled them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." That phrase--"a decent respect"--is a very happy one. Cherish...