Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along the Germano-Polish frontier heavy earth charges of dynamite sent clods, cement and steel hurtling...
Oldtime prospectors grumbled They had no chance. The great diamond syndicates had hired professional runners who would distance the old fogies to richest diamond earth...
...David Kirkwood rose up in the House of Commons, shouted: "The Yorks are on a joyride that costs the Exchequer probably a thousand pounds an hour ($4,860). . . . Why aren't they going to Australia on an ordinary steamer? . . . They are good riddance at the uttermost ends of the earth, and it wouldn't matter an iota if they never returned...
Near Woodruff, S. C., workmen with picks, shovels and dynamite worked day and night in shifts, for 110 hours (four days, 14 hrs.), to cut through the roof of a creekside cave on the farm of one Jonas W. Swink. Mournful howls, deep in the earth, spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died...
...rest on the bank of the Seine, in the midst of the French people ... I shall meet my brave warriors in the Elysian Fields. ... We shall talk of our battles to the Scipios, to Hannibal, Caesar and Frederick. What a delight that will be! If only people here on earth are not terrified at seeing so many soldiers put their heads together! ... I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England...