Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hillside trembled, moved. The train, teetering crazily, swayed outward toward the precipice, then, as the earth rebounded, engine and cars were flung off their rails against the hillside?safe...
...scarcely a "discovery" in any scientific sense. But it was a theory of much originality. Briefly, the theory was this: that traveling in the direction of the earth's rotation, i.e. eastward, is salubrious; and conversely, westward travel is depressing. Count Tolstoi secured many a traveler's testimonial to bear out his generalization...
...effect of the centrifugal force of the earth acting upon the human system...
...When one goes from west to east one is lifted by the action of the earth itself. When he travels from east to west the very action of the earth pulls him down, depresses him. And?here is a bold, statement?I do not believe that Newton was right in describing the force which pulls us down as gravitation. I believe it is nothing but the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the earth. If we could travel fast enough from west to east we would be able to overcome that pull...
From star heat may be calculated star ages, star diameters, star compositions. Star heat is undiminished by billions of miles of passage through universal vacancy, but when the radiations enter Earth's heavy atmosphere they are dispersed, feebled and as difficult to detect and measure as a whisper in a hurricane. Star heat is best studied at altitudes where Earth's atmosphere is rare. To rare-aired Mount Wilson, therefore, went Dr. Abbot, where he can introduce starlight reflected from the 100-inch Carnegie Institute sky-reflector into his newest and finest radiometer-an instrument so delicate that...