Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results with infinite precision, and rejoices preposterously whenever some new record is brought to his credit. Civilized women, because the width of their hips makes their walk an inevitable, though sometimes a graceful, waddle, have not contributed much to this imbecilic form of experimentation. Their speed upon cinders, earth, boards, is pathetic; on ice, or in the water, they do better. Last week in Pittsburgh, an unusually swift woman, Elsie Muller of Manhattan, broke the woman's indoor record for a mile on ice. Her time was 3 minutes 19 3-5 seconds...
...tolling-bells were drowned in a roar of gunfire-the body of Friedrich Ebert had baen lowered into its last resting place, following a Catholic burial service.* Then, all was quiet except for the shuffling of unwilling and retreating footsteps and the thump of the earth as the diggers began to fill in the grave...
...cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen lamp turned his eyes, glazed with horror, upon the erstwhile screaming woman. They looked at each other with a wild conviction. The City of New York was utterly destroyed...
...pointed out, is to comment as impartially as is humanly possible, praising where praise is due and condemning where condemnation can be of help for the future. If Mr. Virgil Thomson thought that the playing of the Orchestra in Brattle Hall was bad, there is no reason on earth why Mr. Thomson should not have said so, and the reception of the Orchestra in Springfield is quite beside the point. The Pierian may have played badly in Brattle Hall (and I think that even its most ardent supporters will admit that there were a few blemishes in this concert...
...travel into the solar system." He produced a copy of The Solar Path, prospectus written by himself. "With each copy of this I give away a bond redeemable for $20 in 1960. ... At a height of about 800 miles from here, there is a solid land, a new earth. There we will find riches and precious stones in abundance and we intend to claim that new domain...