Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urged them to leave their homes and to gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man?but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True, this flood seemed to be worse than usual. Later on, perhaps, they might have to fight day and night against the waters...
...President's father was a vinedresser ? a peasant in wooden sabots and an earth-stained blouse. As a lad, little Gaston wriggled his bare toes often in grape mash as he trod out the juices on which fermentation works. The circumstances of his rise (TIME, Aug. 2) need not be rehearsed again. Nothing is more certain than that when the King-Emperor and the President greeted each other last week, two able but almost incredibly lucky men shook hands...
...night last week, by a loud explosion and a sudden flash of light. Then the night resumed its quietude and its blackness. Next day, investigators found a burned patch of grass on the hospital grounds and a few small holes, less than two inches in diameter, in the earth. A fireball (meteor) had hit Kansas City...
...rapidly through the air, they generate intense frictional heat which burns up most of their material substance. Thus, they become "balls" of fiery gases and small particles of carbon, magnesium, sodium, etc. The explosion of a meteor is due to its rapid combustion in the dense atmosphere near the earth. It is estimated that some 20,000,000 meteors, which would be visible to the naked eye in the absence of sunlight, moonlight or clouds, enter the atmosphere every...
Meteorites are the material residue of meteors, which reaches the earth. The largest meteorite actually seen to fall, landed its 547 pounds at Knyahinya, Hungary, in 1866. However, masses have been found weighing up to 50 tons, which have the characteristics of meteorites. A fused crust indicating intense heating in the drop through the air is noticeable on all meteorites. About one-third of the earth's elements have been found in meteorites; most of them resemble stones; a few contain a large percentage of iron ore. Perhaps the most famed meteorite of history was the black, cone-shaped...