Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father they could not have been more distinct or possessed more of the feeling of personal communion. Although but a lad, I knew that God had communicated with me for one brief moment. I stood as truly alone with him as though there was not another human being on earth. As I look back on it, the sense of complete isolation then was even more marvelous than the words...
...Professor Vigard, of the University of Christiania, Norway, claims he has discovered another and better reason. Just outside the earth's atmosphere, he says, is a wall of crystalline particles of nitrogen. This is what makes the sky blue. It also explains, he thinks, why radio waves follow the contour of the earth, instead of flying off from it at a tangent. This would seem to indicate that radio communication with other planets will always be impossible...
SAINT JOAN-G. B. Shaw, encouraged by the Theatre Guild, seeks to bring Jeanne d'Arc and the world down to-earth...
...flight, and steering from a small wooden seat near the propeller, reached the astonishing height of 350 feet, to the present days, when parachutists can drop safely from an altitude of 21,000 feet, and gasoline can be transferred from one plane to the other high above the earth. How could Farman, who, in 1903 filled his tank with a tin-can, have realized that twenty years later 2000 gallons of gasoline would be the average lead of an army air-plane...
With the subject "Man's Control of Water", Mr. M. C. Whipple, instructor in Sanitary Chemistry in the Engineering School, will show how large a part water has played in man's existence on the earth, how man's control of water has advanced with engineering science and led to stabilization of population and the opening up of large areas for habitation...