Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made Leviathan steamed into Quarantine, 6 days and 14 hours out from Cherbourg. The timorous passengers smiled and rolled across the solid earth upon their sea legs. The timid questioned whether ever again they would go to sea, questioned whether the sea were conquerable, asked in their hearts whether some day or other some such man-made Leviathan might not succumb to the demons of the ancient deep. Indeed, it would be a serious question for the Shipping Board, or any other shipping agency, if one of its great ships should ever sink before the onslaught of the storm...
...Department has recommended, and Congress is planning, suitable guerdons for the hardy fliers who recently circumaviated the earth. A bill before Congress proposes making the Lieutenants, Majors; the Sergeants, First Lieutenants; giving each $10,000 and a Congressional Medal of Honor. The War Department, announcing a list of belated citations for gallantry in the Spanish American War, named Lieut. John J. Pershing (now General retired) to be honored with a silver star. The frigate Constitution, several times near destruction, saved once by Oliver Wendell Holmes' Old Ironsides, is suffering from the decay of age. Rear Admiral de Steiguer made...
...wanderlust cannot be appreciated unless one has a home. The Marines are, by nature of their calling, wanderers. But they have a home; it is Quantico, Va., their great training ground, the place from which they go forth in war and peace to the ends of the round earth. Now it is proposed that the Marines should own their own home...
...Conditions have changed more in the past ten years than in any other such period since the birth of Christ," he said, "and each change brings about closer contact with our fellow men at the other ends of the earth." He stated that on this account there is a greater need for sympathy among peoples, which might be founded on the broadening type of education...
...Just as a hundred years ago the world saw that it could not afford to do without science, and subsequently led us into what has turned out to be a great scientific era, so now the world is perceiving that it cannot do without art, and its life on earth is not complete and happy without the spiritual content that art alone can bring. It will search for a higher art just as it has reached for a higher science...