Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until the recent National High School Basket Ball Tournament at Chicago, I would have answered both of the above in the positive. But now I am inclined to believe negatively-How on earth could the conductor of your Sport Column overlook the wonderful victory won by the "Tomcats" of Ashland, Kentucky? How does their "clean play" record of going through the entire tournament without a single personal foul compare in "reader interest" with your recent story (under "Records") about the fat man from Hamburg who swam the sea lion to sleep...
Hundreds of minor earth shocks and a score of major quakes occurred, last week, in a narrow area some 500 miles long and stretching from Varna, on the Black Sea across Bulgaria, Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea to Corinth, in Greece. As the first shocks rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...
Xray. The same rays were found in Bolivia and in California, showing that they come from a source so vast & remote that they strike the whole surface of the earth impartially. Theoretical calculations by Millikan out of Einstein, on the strength of the rays that would be shot forth if hydrogen atoms collided to form oxygen or nitrogen, perfectly checked the actual measurements made...
...suns and stars may not be the only scenes of activity. Helium, oxygen, nitrogen are common in the earth. Have they always existed as helium, oxygen, nitrogen; or have they been formed and are they being formed from the hydrogen which is so abundant in the soil? Is it possible that the terrific activity which goes on high overhead is taking place underfoot at the same time? It is, says Science...
...lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being bumped by, or bumping, other atoms, cannot save their strength to go into a highly active state give very different lines when photographed...