Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once more Mr. Baker took the floor to speak for the ideals of Wilson. He had enthusiasm and force, and with real oratory swayed the Convention: "There is no subject on this earth, apart from my relations to my God and my duty to my family, which compares even remotely (with me) with the League of Nations...
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...suns, circling the earth in separate orbits, one inside the other, with inconceivable complications in the mundane seasons, is the curious prediction credited to Dr. David Todd, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Amherst College. Dr. Todd, who has been making solar studies from an observatory near Philadelphia, discovered a great mass of spots on the eastern edge of the sun, and drew the conclusion that the sun is breaking up. He is said to have claimed that a crack is becoming visible...
...dark spots. They move in very definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting at the poles of the sun, the spots increase rapidly in number and they move nearer the equator. They are most numerous in parts which correspond to the temperate zones on earth. At the end of the cycle they gradually disappear again; and eleven years after the first cycle began, they start to reappear and proceed through the same process. In 1923 the sun spot cycle was at its low ebb, but spots are again beginning to appear and we may look for the maximum...
...sorts of wild theories of their relation to terrestrial conditions have been advanced. They do seem to be of a magnetic nature and to produce electrical and atmospheric disturbances on the earth at certain periods. Professor Tchijewsky, a Russian scientist, has recently come out with a theory that at sun spot maxima, worldly affairs are excited and wars, revolutions, migrations, etc.. break out. He thinks he has traced definite cycles of such historical events in the 19th Century paralleling the sun spots. The purely fantastic character of this conjecture is obvious; the problem of the physical influence...