Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...larger than Betelgeuse. It is believed to be about 165 light years distant, which makes its diameter about 250,000,000 miles. Only one larger star, Antares, has been measured.* Therefore, if the centre of Mira were where the center of our Sun is, the orbit of the Earth would be some 25,000,000 miles inside the surface of Mira...
...long men thought the earth was flat. In the latter part of the 15th Century, the idea began to get about that the earth was a sphere...
...early as 1696, it was shown that the earth is not a true sphere. Various calculations have since been made of the earth's shape and dimensions...
...Samaria, the Harvard expedition increased the output of earth removed each day 100 per cent by reducing the size of the baskets by one half and increasing the wages 15 per cent. Other increases in the amount of work accomplished were effected by drawing the railroad line into the immediate proximity of the excavations and by adjusting exactly the number of carriers to the number of pickmen. Great economies were effected by employing extremely efficient native assistants for bookkeeping, photography, and for keeping certain parts of the record, instead of highly paid European or American assistants...
...peruse a letter appended to the Graphic editorial, in which a presumed Graphic reader, one L. A. Wilson, besought the Graphic to "take the lead in criticizing the scare headlines in some papers which use such low-down tactics," referred to "the recent but harmless tremor of the earth," arraigned the News for flaunting on its front page a picture of what might have happened ito this city in a serious earthquake," prophesied that such tactics "mean ruin in the end for a paper belching forth such rot," stated of the News that "no educational thoughts are offered...