Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...
...probable that the Student Council keenly does realize that "the spirit of undergraduate Harvard is not exactly like that of other institutions". That is exactly what is the matter with it, and that is exactly what the Council aims to improve. The last thing on earth the Council wishes to stimulate is "artificial enthusiasm...
From the wide open spaces of Minnesota, where grow corn and wheat and financial reforms, comes a new proposal for peace upon earth with the dollar sign as the herald angel. The spokesman is Senator Shipstead, the Farmer-Labor member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His proposition is to establish control by the Federal Government of all American banking and investment credit in the international field as a means of promoting world peace...
...remote spiral nebulae in Andromeda and Triangulum. He found in these nebulae numbers of variable stars. Measurement of the brightness of these stars established that they were 4,000 to 8,000 times as bright as the sun. From this date, he calculated the distance from the earth to those stars as 930,000 light years,* or about five and a half quintillion (5,500,000,000,000,000,000) miles. As compared to the belief of only a few years ago that the diameter of the sidereal universe was about 350,000 light years, this is rather a magnificent...
...Canadian Government from His Majesty's Canadian throne. Arriving at the entrance to the Commons, Black Rod found the door closed ; he struck three times with his rod, demanded to be let in. Inside, the "faithful Commons" went through the usual pantomime of wondering what on earth the noise was about. The Speaker asks if the pleasure of the House is that the doors be opened. The House, enveloped in pseudo-mystery, jokingly gives its assent. A burly sergeant-at-arms is despatched to admit the patient Black Rod and, as he goes, he walks with an almost insolently...