Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest Dole described his invention as follows: "My secrets I will confide only to M. Painlevé. But I have here a photograph of my model in flight. . . . Observe that it has wings. They are used only to stabilize and control it, as it ascends from or returns to the earth. ... It flies not by means of a propeller, but by a device which sucks in the air and then expels it explosively with a force much greater than the 'wind' created by a propeller. . . . Thus there is no 'motor,' no 'engine,' only the device which creates by explosive means...
...setting up sky-scouring 'scopes. Nearby, anchored in the blaze of ocean, is the naval transport, Chaumont, nest of balloons, dirigibles, airplanes. Both the Swarthmore men and the U. S. Navy men are preparing for three weird minutes on Jan. 14, when the sun will be blackened, the earth move to the dance of cosmic shadows. The terror of chattering natives will be reported by the scientists at a total eclipse of the sun, the second in a year. (The other eclipse took place on the morning of Jan. 24 at 9:03- TIME...
There remains to this day a place on earth which eye hath not seen. It is 84° north, longitude 160°, 400 miles from the North Pole (90° north, longitude 00°). is variously known as the Ice Pole, or the Inaccessible Pole or the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility. Thither would men go: for one reason, because it is probably the world's most ungetatable place; for another, because it may be the undomesticated capital of a valuable province...
...found two very interesting things: one, a subscription order blank for TIME; the other, an article on p. 30 entitled "Doorman." The order blank was printed in green and red, colors obviously intended to remind one of Christmas, the birthday of Him who preached "peace on earth, good will toward men." The article on p. 30 dealt with a black man who knocked down a white...
...whom Washington press correspondents are said to have christened "Nervous Nellie" should read and take courage from the words of Milton almost three centuries ago in the Areopagitica: "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter...