Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finor tribute can be paid to the ideals and traditions of Yale than the service of carrying her spirit to the ends of the earth. Yale Daily News...
...American demand for spirits. The Baronet stated that the demand existed, and that many countries were already competing to supply it. House of Commons. Ben Turner (Labor) presented a bill to nationalize all lands, minerals, rivers and streams. In its support he quoted the Bible: "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof," and "The profit of the earth is for all." Nevertheless, the bill was not taken seriously, was defeated 176 to 164 votes. ¶The subject of a reduction of Minister for Labor Tom Shaw's salary by ?100 (Conservative protest against Labor...
Ecclesiastics have stood in the curious twilight, between Earth and Heaven, between the logical and the ineffable; between the matter-of-fact and the unutterable. They have had to decide that a man denied God, when they themselves could not define God. The seven Bishops, by common sense, found Bishop Brown to be a heretic. But, in a spiritual sense, they may secretly have agreed with their victim that, after all, there is no such thing as a heretic...
Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...
...WONDERFUL VISIT ? Through the medium of an angel, H. G. Wells almost comes down to earth...