Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am very much interested in your comment (TIME, July25) on Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth, particularly where you state that he has translated his latest work into strong, thick-muscled English. I feel perhaps you would like to know something regarding this translation...
...propaganda purposes, the U. S. War Department cooperated generously with Paramount in making this picture drama of the skies. U. S. planes are filmed darting against German foes. Clouds below look like white flocks. Only after a ship has started its crazy dive to death do the tiny earth patches rush up to define themselves as gaping scraps of No Man's Land...
...away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia is five times as large and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts of current are turned on, the crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than 1,000 feet distant. Engineers predicted that...
After 22 hours, out of the dense fog that now covered most of Germany the Bremen coasted to earth again back in Dessau. It too had been repulsed by a wall of blackness. Said Pilot Loose: "Nobody could fly in that weather. . . ." Herr Professor Hermann Junkers, grieving but not disconsolate, rushed the preparation of a third plane...
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in pits, caves, quarries, stream beds for vestiges of the creatures who roamed the earth before them, . .. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating a tooth, a bracelet, a, whole dead civilization. . . . Millions of dollars are spent in digging every year. Following are significant efforts and exhumations in the Americas during the past few months...