Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meetings he showed realization that U. S. Big Business, no longer feared, has reached a position where it is looked to as the big benefactor in times of trouble. Only agreement of big business to maintain schedules can keep U. S. money flowing freely, send miners into the earth, steel workers to the tops of high buildings, loaded freight cars along new steel rails...
...student in chemistry to graduate with a knowledge altogether too small of the interpretation of the past by history and literature and of the present by science as a whole. The correlation of the manifold branches of chemical science, the broad study of the explanation and improvement of the earth and its inhabitants on the basis of physics and chemistry is ample justification for the establishment of a tutorial system in the Department...
...stone that is thought to the billions of years older than the stones of the earth's crust, older, indeed, than the earth itself, and whose secrets are the same as the ultimate secrets of the origin and existence of the material universe, was exhibited last Wednesday night by Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, in the second of a series of five lectures in the new Commerce Hall Auditorium of the College of the city of New York...
...years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric stones, and particularly by the scientific...
...most emphasized in the lecture was the great importance of the study of shooting stars. He listed and described many problems towards which important contributions can be made by the careful scientific study of meteors and meteorites. "Studies of the brightness of shooting stars", he said. "Indicate that the earth's atmosphere 50 miles above the surface is of about the same temperature as at the surface itself. Further knowledge of the upper atmosphere will come through theoretical studies and observations of the brightness of meteors...