Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty. He wrote you: "The Catholic Hierarchy does not speak for me." All right, Mr. Steam and Gas Fitter, I don't fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about that. But who-who on earth ever gave you the right to speak for the "rank and file of Roman Catholics if let alone by the Catholic Hierarchy?" The Catholic rank and file, in spite of this metallic voice pounding in the wilderness of South Dakota-yes, the Catholic laity do want parochial schools for their...
...family, sold to strangers, or new structures built in their stead. All the dwellings which were here up to last fall with the exception of the Hicks and Bridge houses, dated back some eighty or ninety years. Now as we see truck load after truck load of the precious earth rumbling off, some to the Law School, some to the site of the Dean's House at the Business School, and some to Soldiers Field, we are witnessing a great ending. The bones of the old town seen will be scattered to the four winds...
Died. Albert, 41, five-ton dean of the Ringling circus pachydermous corps. Eleven years ago Asiatic Albert (Elephas maximus) was smitten by hay fever, with earth-shaking results. Since then, the snuffling bull has been permitted to spend his years beneath the Florida sun; but this spring it was decreed that Albert should journey northward. The unwell ungulate journeyed. Swiftly he contracted pneumonia. And, despite depth bombs charged with quinine, and gallons of legally prescribed liquor, he died. Notable is the fact that he died most opportunely; in time to burst into print just before the circus's splendiferous...
...meteors and related effluvia has the earth been compounded. A billion or more years ago, according to the planetesimal theory of the late Geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being...
...these eight planets swerved through the eons around the Sun they attracted similarly compounded planetesimals, meteorites, chondrulites. The process of accretion still goes on. Earth within human history has not been struck by (i. e., has not attracted) a planetesimal. But each day at least one meteorite lands, and 20,000,000 chondrulites whiz into the earth's atmosphere. They are the shooting stars seen most often in November (the Leonid shower), in August (the Perseid shower) and in April (the Lyrid shower...