Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Superfluity. "Remember, we already have arbitration treaties with nearly every important country on earth, and by contract under these arbitration treaties questions of controversy are to be submitted to arbitration. The Hague tribunal is in active existence now and is functioning with wider jurisdiction than the League...
...discoveries of Professor Harlow Shapley direct attention to that indescribably enormous void which exists outside and around the comparatively modest solar system of which the earth is one of the lesser planets. Man has always been extremely egotistical in his consideration of the universe; for centuries it was popularly supposed that the earth was the largest, and in fact the only independent body. The sun and moon, mere lamps for the convenience of humanity, passed round and under the earth, sometimes through great caverns and archways, sometimes between the legs of a giant turtle, on whose back rested a huge...
Impossible as it is to grasp the true immensity of the universe, the study of its composition nevertheless develops some appreciation of the insignificance of the earth and its puny inhabitants. It should produce a feeling of serenity and poise quite unlike anything to be gained from familiarity with the intimate details of everyday existence; one might suppose all astronomers were large-souled and venerable; preferably with long white beards...
America's scientific elite, gathered at Cincinnati for the 75th anniversary meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, heard and saw fresh miracles of the heavens and earth and the creatures that inhabit them...
...earliest living presidents of the Association, Dr. Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago, dean of American geologists, and now past 80 years of age, lectured on Seventy-Five Years of Geology. The nebular hypothesis of the early gaseous state of the earth, changing through liquid to solid, proposed by Laplace in the 18th Century, has now largely been superseded by an entirely new theory of origins known as the "planetesimal hypothesis," and largely developed by Dr. Chamberlin. The earth probably never passed through a gaseous state. Volcanic action is local and arises from special causes. The earth...