Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry. In short, run what Mark Twain once described as a "human stud-farm". "In the second generation", to quote the cheerful Californian, "there would be a race of superman gods on earth...
...elusive fountain of youth, and Ponce de Leon achieved lasting fame. Messrs. Rice, Rehm, and Buffam, however, are after nothing so ridiculous. What they hope to discover is a new and dazzling type of feminine beauty. They may fail: it would seem scarcely credible that any cranny of the earth remained still hid from Mr. Zeigfield's keen-eyed scouts. And failing, they will be ridiculously ridiculous where Ponce de Leon was sublimely so. But the world will hope for their success, if only to see what a shock Mr. Zeigfield would receive to find the "Geryon" loaded with beauties...
...feet long. The principal lenses are 26 inches in diameter and average two inches in thickness. To secure good photographs, it is necessary that the telescope should exactly follow the stars. For this purpose, telescopes are provided with a mechanism for counteracting the effect of the rotation of the earth. Since the telescope must be rotated toward the west at the rate of one turn in 24 hours and this with great delicacy, the ball bearings on which the telescope moves must be of the highest type, and all parts of the telescope must be made with great precision...
...Origin of the Earth" is the subject of Professor Harlow Shapley's lecture at the open meeting in the University Observatory from 7.30 until 9 o'clock tonight. This is the fourth of a series of seven open meetings of this season which give the public the opportunity to make stellar observations whenever the weather permits. If the weather is clear this evening every one present will be able to use a telescope...
...indeed there is about her a health and sense and sanity that exhilarates you like a very spirit of the green earth. She is the daughter of a Hungarian father and an Italian mother and you find in her that plain earthy sense that is characteristic of the Italians. She will continue that she owes her voice to her many children. " With every child my voice grew better. And in my early years I was left alone to support eight children. I had to work hard and study hard and become a success in opera to keep them fed, clothed...