Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These points, now pressed by the President in person, were the same points he had given Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson to press at Geneva. To bring his meaning closer to earth, he next day let his Secretary of State voice further argument. Statesman Stimson distributed to newsmen a brief, carefully-timed statement which reminded U. S. taxpayers that unless world navies are further restricted, the U. S. in the next 15 years will carry out a naval building and replacement program costing $1,170,000,000. "And if it proceeds, other nations will be impelled to follow suit." The program...
...course the United States government has no intention of violating the traditional sanctity of extraterritorial privileges. No rights ordinarily granted to mere congressmen would be denied to the representatives of the powers of the earth. In fact there is little fear of the United States prohibition enforcement unit even among those not native to these shores...
...French Ministry of Fine Arts ordered all construction stopped on the Boulevard St. Michel extension of the Paris Metro. Engineers and workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that it was one of the most valuable historical...
Continued the professor: "Every metre of earth is valuable; we have already found what is probably the finest collection of instruments of torture in Europe...
...Dixmude, France's only dirigible, and her hangar. French officials, who before the flight had put many a peckish restriction on the Graf Zeppelin's crossing France, wirelessed Commander Eckener to try to reach Cuers-Pierrefeu. He succeeded. A company of Senegalese troops pulled the ship to earth and walked her into the hangar. Passengers, weary, pretended unconcern over their dangers. Most of them declared that they would wait until the ship's motors were replaced and she would start again for the U. S. That, it was apparent, would not be for several weeks...