Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey: "The Church burned Bruno and imprisoned Galileo. The Church has lived by its monopolies and conquered by its intolerance...
Roald Amundsen, adventurer in the white wastes of the Earth's poles, knows the vicissitudes of life. Once he immortalized himself by sweeping to the southern tip of the imaginary line on which the world revolves. More recently, only a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 17), he went into bankruptcy, his substance expended in the Arctic. One of his few assets was the schooner Maud which he had left near Alaska to drift across trie pole in the Arctic icepack, while he went adventuring toward the pole by airplane. The failure of the airplane venture...
Harvard rooters, horrified, uttered "regular Harvard cheers" at the half-hearted bidding of half-hearted cheer leaders, and sang occasional lines of the songs that were written for Harvard to sing against Yale. The Harvard band never had a chance on earth after the Princeton band got started. Most emphatically it was a shameful Harvard...
Significance. At Babel, once a tower rose, heavenbound. But its build ers disputed, talked strange tongues, went unto the ends of the earth, con founded for blasphemy. Having accumulated humility and wisdom, and translated their tongues each into the others', the races are now come to gether again in new towers. They aspire not to Heaven, but to Knowledge...
...first inspired ambiguous conjecture, leaving most men readier to impute to malevolence her obscure government of rhythms in nature than to find benign her whiteness, her remote hauteur. "She is wise," they said, "only to confound; her beauty maketh mad." Yet gardeners, and others whose work is in the earth, have stood to the defense of the cold lady of Heaven. They have declared that seeds sown in the moon's first quarter grow more quickly than those planted in the dark of the moon. They have averred it often, foot on mattock, few but children and naturals believing...