Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawyers who happen to sit on a bench, how much more virtue and sanctity should there be in the Congress opinion and oath of the 350 lawyers and judges who sit in the Congress and Senate of the United States? What body of men on the face of the earth is so well qualified to consider the constitutionality of legislation as the 531 members of our National Congress...
THESE EVENTFUL YEARS-The Encyclopedia Britannica (2 vols.)-$11.50. Two ponderous volumes, containing 1,351 pages of reading matter, attempt to relate the story of the present Century. From the four legendary corners of the earth-from the U. S. to Australia, from Russia to South America-the Encyclopedia Britannica has gathered the experts of the world and has persuaded them to write contemporary history...
Said The World: "Imagine a man like Bud Fisher not being cognizant of the vast difference between two such totally different towns as Greenville, N. C, and Greenville, S. C. . . . How on earth could Bud Fisher possibly have been so stupid as not to know that Greenville, S. C., had such a mass of spindles? . . . The World, in behalf of Bud Fisher, does the manly thing and apologizes...
...great height swooped the plane, catapulting toward the starting line in a wide arc. Then tragedy. The machine was seen to disintegrate, like a cardboard toy. A wing broke completely away, fluttered down. The crippled fuselage spun, dove precipitately behind a row of trees. Flying sticks and clods of earth, visible to the crowd a mile and a half away, told of Skeel's instant death-the first fatality in all five years of the Pulitzer velocity tests. Lieut. Mills' time of 216.55 m.p.h. was 27.12 miles slower than...
Stunts. Between races, trick flying and aerial feats were performed. Two Army planes maneuvered with a length of ribbon connecting their wing tips. Though they looped the looped and performed other acrobatics, the ribbon was unbroken when they came to earth...