Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked only that we should bring with us a few flowers, as though he desired to inhale for the last time the perfume and beauty of living things before returning to earth. The perfume of those flowers is wafted over him now and with it the nostalgia of our keen and true friendship...
...London a year from November to deliver the 1927 Huxley lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. No U.S. scientist save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular of his earth-circling trip last year when he discovered a pure American Indian type among Asian aborigines; noted scattered strains of Negrito stock as far apart as India, Africa and the Philippines; studied towheaded Negroes in Australia; found fossils of a new type of big ape in the Siwalik Hills of Burma...
...acquaint students with the scientific point of view, and give them a general understanding of the laws which govern the external world in which they live." Antioch has realized this need in modern education to the extent of requiring for a degree courses in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and "Earth Science" (which includes a survey of climatology, meteorology, astronomy, and geology). Thus the Antioch student, if he be susceptible to education, will graduate with a good foundation in the fundamental laws of the natural sciences...
...Viceroy attend Princes whose antiquity of lineage combined with wealth exceeds that of any other class of mortals. As the crown jewels of George V outshine those of other Occidental monarchs, so are they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold and gems weighing several tons, a monarch who reigns with medieval absolutism over the largest native state in India, over 13 million souls...
...life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...