Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gillette, Wyo., as at Minturn and elsewhere in the region, the coal deposits are on or near the earth's surface. A few country mines are operating. Ranchers have long scraped what they needed for household fires from outcroppings in bluffs and streambeds. Large-scale production can be accomplished by "stripping" the seams from above. Tunnelling will seldom be necessary...
...Canadians and Americans speak the same language, read the same books, think the same thoughts. Jointly they occupy the largest area of the earth's surface where a single language is spoken...
...newspapers were full of reports from the Mt. Everest Expedition which made two valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...
Over Hartford, Conn., last week an airplane coursed, wove figure 8's, glided and banked faultlessly. It coasted to earth, rose again; alighted again, rose a third time. A few eyes that strained towards its flight were sycophantic; many were worried, most were proud. For operating the plane was Governor John H. Trumbull, first governor, as far as is known, to do a solo airplane flight...
Assistant Professor H. T. Stetson, who has charge of the observations, states that the effect of solar eruptions, which appear as spots on a photographic negative, upon the electrical conditions of the earth's atmosphere, are known to play an important part in determining weather and seasonal changes. The Weather Bureau is making a thorough investigation of sun-spot phenomena with a view to predicting the general characteristics of whole seasons. The precipitation of rain, the recurrence of storms, and electrical disturbances in the earth's atmosphere, depend to a large degree upon the upper atmosphere, and this in turn...