Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the tiny one shut off part of the light shed by the enormous one upon a third, a moderate-sized body covered with white, blue and green scum, which spun along hard by the tiny cold body. That is, the moon cast its solar shadow full upon the earth- a total eclipse. It happened that the shadow-an oval patch 80 miles in longitude, about 180 in latitude, traveling side wise from west to east just north of the equator at some 60 miles a minute-moved across a 7,-000-mile belt of the earth sparsely inhabited...
Last year, Daniel Guggenheim, Manhattan copper man and banker, gave to promote society's future in the air, half a million of the dollars his family had dug from the bowels of the earth, the money going to help endow New York University's School of Aeronautics (TIME, June...
Last week, Daniel Guggenheim announced another benefaction of the powers of the earth to the pioneers of the air. He wrote U.S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover that he had established a Fund for the Promotion of Aviation, with trustees "of eminence and competence," to assist civil aeronautic activities and cooperate with governmental ones...
...whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...
...been ordered from the room, reappears and tells Siegmund to try and draw from a great oak the sword which was thrust in it by the Gods. Siegmund, with a mighty effort, draws the sword and thereby proves that he is Sieglinde's brother and the greatest warrior on earth...