Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles; Spitzbergen is 500 miles from the Pole, but over 1,700 miles from Point Barrow. The explorers will, therefore, make several seven-hour trips from Norway to the Pole, and make a cache there of fuel and supplies, for the last dash across the frozen top of the earth...
...decorating our personality not with things of the spirit, but with things of the earth...
...Christ ended His ministry on earth with the great command ... to preach the gospel to all men everywhere. He did not tell us to shoot the gospel into all men everywhere. We are doing a lot of things in the name of Christ nowadays in a manner wholly contrary to anything He ever said or did or taught...
...MIRACLE-Moves a Manhattan theatre back to the shadows of the Middle Ages. "The greatest show on earth...
...warmth of affection practised by the knights and poets of Elizabeth's reign demanded protestation, an art in which the modern world is deficient. It is an art, however vain, which might restore some fragment of joy and courtesy to Vanity Fair, the only permanent institution on earth. In "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth...