Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holds the highest office on earth by virtue of a title greater than that of any electorate. God made him President...
...chilled by everlasting night. Indraughts of tremendous power in the Venusian atmosphere must rush from the cold to the hot side, creating a partial vacuum in the center of the illuminated hemisphere, with vast meteorological and electrical disturbances. At intervals of a year and three-fifths Venus and the earth are in conjunction, the orbit of Venus being located about one-third of the distance between that of the earth and the sun. At every fifth conjunction, or approximately eight years apart, there is a transit of Venus, i.e., Venus, the earth and the sun are in the same straight...
...rocket offers great opportunities for making photographs and meteorological records above the 20-30 mile stratum beyond the range of airplanes. Once it gets free of the earth's atmosphere moreover, it would operate still better, as its maximum efficiency is in a vacuum. Dr. Goddard makes no Jules Verne predictions for future interplanetary communication by passenger-carrying cars, but he does definitely aver that there are no insuperable obstacles to this first modest mechanical attempt to reach other worlds than...
...been thinking tenderly of Me? She sent me word (the darling) that she had come to the conclusion that our friendship might be put upon quite a different footing. . . . I came to see her. . . . And then her familiar and gracious charm had its way with me. . . . Who on earth are you talking about? I can hear you asking. Why, who indeed but the Evening Post...
...became the fear that would not even follow. We forsook not only our comrades at arms but also the high purposes we had announced so proudly. We snatched peace and with it victory from the hands of our soldiers and our allies. We uprooted our dead from the earth of the very hills up which they had fought. We leveled their empty graves lest anyone should remember that under this foreign earth once lay American soldiers who died for peace...