Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...
...Holy and Imperial Majesty Charles V, as a token of goodwill that might facilitate the transfer of property. Titian made the picture about 1525, since when it has remained forever fair, though the cities and the man for whose sake it was created have long ago filtered into the earth. For centuries, it was believed lost. An art dealer, A. S. Drey, discovered it, sold it to the Metropolitan Museum for a sum not definitely known but rumored to range anywhere from $150,000 to $1,000,000. Funds were forthcoming from the endowment granted by the late Frank...
...Vanzetti, have you anything to say. . . ?" The fish peddler was an orator: "Yes, what I say is that I am innocent. ... I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood . . . but I have struggled all my life, since I began to reason, to eliminate crime from the earth. . . . What we have suffered during these seven years no human tongue can say, and yet you see me before you, not trembling, you see me looking you in your eyes straight, not blossoming, not changing color, not ashamed or in fear. . . . "We know that you [Judge Thayer] have spoke your hostility against...
...total miles of road and 7.05% of the total miles of track in the U. S., yet last year handled 10.92% of all the freight traffic arid 17.91% of all the passenger traffic. It carried the equivalent of one ton of freight 49 billion miles (264 round trips between earth and sun) and one passenger 6 1/2 billion miles (35 round trips between earth and sun). This year the "Pennsy" is making an exceptionally strong campaign for passenger traffic between the Atlantic Coast and Chicago...
...grouping of special psychological conditions that brings about this miscarriage. The trial was begun in an atmosphere of fear and hatred toward men of radical opinions, anarchists, communists, pacifists. The land was to be purged of such poison by fair means or foul: "away with such fellows from the earth". That panic, with its follies and wrongs, has largely subsided; but these two men have been mentally placed in the dreaded class, and for many citizens it has become impossible to wipe out this first picture and replace it by a saner one, remembering that they are not on trial...