Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With every chug the yacht drew nearer to the squat boulder from whose eminence New England society finds itself able to look down. And when the helmsman at last ran to earth Captain Adolphus' pin, the President and Mrs. Coolidge disembarked " amid many direct descendants of the original Pilgrims,"; who were swelled by unabashed plebeians into "an enthusiastic crowd...
...BOOK OF THE EARTH No. 2 of The Torchbearers)?Alfred Noyes?Stokes ($2.50). Poet Noyes of England has set himself the task, impressive in these days of composing these hymns to the torchbearers of Science. The first was Watchers of the Sky, to astronomers. Now are sung the naturalists, geologists, polentologists, evolutionists...
Into the dreadful heart of the old earth dreaming...
...fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing a small container filled with crude oil into contact with the silken thread. The principle that would cause the indication of the presence of oil in the ground, he explained...
...Russell, looking into a future based upon sex equality, discerns the first appearance upon earth of a civilization that will never decay...