Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this modern Black Plague periodically sweeps two out of three from the ranks of reasonable men and therefore deprives them for the time of the right to al themselves civilized. The doctor has eradicated the old Black Plague, or has driven it into the dark corners of the earth. Never again will it sweep the crowd in cities, striking as it goes. Today the doctors of public opinion, the men who write, who edit, who produce, who talk, have before them a greater opportunity than ever before to eradicate the Twentieth. Century Black Plague. Let the people see more...
...Governor of Illinois, Atheist Ingersoll is asked to state his allegiance to the Christian Church. "Man to man, Bob!" "What?" "What about it?" "Why, damn it, just this. My beliefs are my own and I wouldn't sacrifice one of them to be president of the whole rolling earth. Going? Well, take another cigar...
Seismograph needles, the world over, jumped wildly a fortnight ago. So violently did the earth tremble that many a seismograph was jarred out of commission. One of the severest shocks in years had occurred and scientists pictured one of history's worst disasters in its wake. That evening they expected to find the press full of hideous headlines-cities razed, thousands killed, islands submerged, raging fires...
...ever so humble, there is no place like a, corner of the earth never before visited by white men. So think ethnologists, natural historians, cartographers, photographers, hunters and peepers and priers and pushers, who year in and year out spend money and lives on arduous expeditions. Some expeditions and their results of late months...
...These do not include the expeditions of scientists who dig beneath the earth's surface for lost cities, tombs, treasures, fossils, jaw bones of ancient men and animals. Diggers' recent doings will be summarized in another issue of TIME...