Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...businessmen go a daily average of 3,000 replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply?not necessarily complete?must go to every inquirer within 48 hours of the time his question reaches us. . . . The most perishable commodity on earth is commercial intelligence. . . . The concealment of facts is dangerous. If the truth is shocking, the more reason why we should have the truth...
Commander De Linedo has spent 5000 hours in the air and flown 500,000 miles in pursuit of glory and fortune, he said. He has spent the equivalent of 208 days above the earth. From Boston, he plans to fly to Philadelphia, then to Charleston, S. C., Pensacola, Fla., Memphis, Tenn, St. Louis, Chicago, Montreal and then to Newfoundland, from where he will take off for the Azores, Spain and back to Rome...
...Germany and the U. S. are not represented. *First three letters of the French word panne, meaning "difficulty." The English flying term, "pancake," a verb describing a method of coming to earth with supporting surfaces of the ship flattened to retard the descent and prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster though fliers are sometimes obliged to "pancake" when damage to their controls or weather and ground conditions make other tactics impossible. šThe original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these...
Levees crumbled in the night. Frosts added their malediction. Like a surly brown earth serpent uncoiling, the great river straightened its devious winding down a crow's-flight line of 600 miles...
...unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers from the temple, 8) refusing the earthly crown of power, 9) resisting the temptation of Satan, 10) partaking of the Last Supper, 11) being tortured by the Roman centurions, 12) being condemned by the mob who chose Barabbas for pardon, 13) crucified, 14) hanging on the Cross while the earth is torn by melodramatic storm and quake...