Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth hopped hurriedly into the cockpit of The Spirit of St. Louis, headed for Nicaragua...
Panama. At Campo Lindbergh, the Spirit of St. 'Louis circled overhead and slid to earth. A national holiday. Speeches. Sefiora Guilermo Garcia de Paredes, daughter of President Chiari, gave birth to a boy that morning. Sentiment recommended she name him after the famed guest from Northern skies...
...imperial majesty, the Shah [of Persia] was to turn the first shovel of earth. At the same hour and minute . . . signals were to be conveyed to the governor generals of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, who, representing the king of kings, were to go through the same ceremony in their respective domains. . . . The date . . . was not an auspicious one because the moon was not in its proper phase and the work was set back two weeks...
...doctrine of evolution: that the universe is orderly in time as well as in space. It is naïve and provincial to think of evolution as a term applicable only to changes in living organisms. It applies equally to stars and systems of stars, to the earth, to the creatures living on the earth, to the mind of man. Sometimes these changes will be toward what we regard as perfection; sometimes in the opposite direction, but always orderly. Is there anything in this to corrupt the mind of youth...
...longer does the voice of God, as it is reputed once to have done, drum across the sky in the sound of storm or make a friendly whisper in the wilderness. Angels come to earth no more and the night is never filled now with the strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone...