Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between 10.15 o'clock and 10.30 on Sunday, a brilliant shower of balls of fire apparently dropping to the earth was seen by persons in South Sudbury, Roslindale, Ipswich Brunswick, Me., and other towns...
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in caves, pits, mounds, buttes for vestiges of the creatures who roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating whole dead civilizations. Millions of dollars spent in digging every year. Following are significant exhumations of the past few months...
...Corinth. The J. P. Morgan-financed diggers at Corinth, having removed 5,000 tons of earth, beheld the first example known of large-scale Greek painting-a decoration upon the guard walls of an arena, showing gladiatorial combats lifesize, in color. A Targe Roman villa of the First Century A. D. yielded floor mosaics that are "without doubt the finest thing of the sort yet found in Greece," according to Dr. T. Leslie Shear of the American School of Classical Studies...
...died of oyster ptomaine-a faux pas to discuss prohibition in a house recently disgraced by the tippling of its breadwinner-so it is a serious breach of taste to "speak of earthquakes in California. Ever since the geological disaster in San Francisco in 1906, all convulsions of the earth's crust have been referred to euphemistically; people do not say "since the earthquake" but "since the fire." What must be the courage, then, of Dr. Bailey Willis, seismologist and Professor Emeritus of Geology at Stanford University. Last week he declared that within the next ' ten years...
...Chicago, one Campbell McCarthy, waited in a death-house to be hanged for murder. He had only one meal left to eat on earth, and that he knew would be a good one-chicken. Suddenly the jailer came to his cell and told him his execution had been stayed. Mr. McCarthy's face brightened, then fell. Said he: "Captain, lemme ask you one favor. Lemme stay in here tonight, Boss, and eat ma meal. Lemme eat that chicken just like I was going...