Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to determine the effect of solar disturbances upon the electrical conditions of the earth's atmosphere in relation to radio receptivity and weather changes, the Astronomical Laboratory is cooperating with the Naval Observatory, the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, and the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The phenomena known as sun-spots, or violent gaseous convulsions on the surface of the sun, have been proved to affect radio transmission, seasonal changes, and to be a direct cause of the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights...
Daily photographs of the sun's surface are made at the Astronomical Laboratory, and forwarded to Washington with information gathered from the observations. Some of the sun-spots represent disturbed areas two or three times the diameter of the earth in extent, while the greatest one recorded at the Laboratory was about 100,000 miles long...
...dells covered with the shining mahogany grass where the fizzbells bloomed or rambled in the glades where there was a musical tinkle dripping from the keg trees. The streams gurgled with ice water, the brandy bees buzzed over the wild eggnog vines and the rumroots grew juicy in the earth beneath the sherry berry thickets...
...having no interference to bother with succeeded in dragging him down on the Crimson 40 yard line. For a moment it looked as though the Crusaders were stopped far short of their goal, but it happened that Purple ingenuity was not yet exhausted. As the runner came to earth he dropped the ball, one of his own interference behind him picked it up and completed the triumphal run for the only Holy Cross score of the afternoon. BY TIME...
...speaker hesitated. Perhaps the self-consciously fixed stare of a banker across the table brought Mr. Bingham back to earth. Hesitation lengthened into a pause which Mr. Bingham ended with half a cough and half a chuckle. He had talked half an hour, he said, and would now stop...