Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peninsula of Kamchatka, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, the volcanoes Montnovsky and Avatchinskayasopka erupted amid earth quakings and buried the snow covered city of Petropavlovsk beneath avalanches of molten lava...
...Simplicity instead of vain display; originality instead of blind imitation; progress in view of this period of evolution and improvement to keep up with advancing civilization; national harmony in purpose and action; beneficence to all classes of people and friendship to all the nations of the earth: these are cardinal aims to which our profoundest abiding solicitude is directed...
...year ago last week many people were puzzling their heads over the just-then-published will of the late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey. What on earth had inspired him, a man with no inkling or appreciation of art, to bequeath all but a trifle of his 40 millions? to the Metropolitan Museum...
Every week, every day, a bird's-eye view of the world contains many humans soaring off the earth, flitting about, coming to grief or glory. Last week's bird's-eye view included the following sights...
...Illinois, dimly seen in fog that blanketed Chanute Field (Rantoul, Ill.), two rapid specks collided head on, crumpled, fell together 400 feet to earth where they wrecked themselves but did not catch fire. They were planes manned by four Army officers?Capt. Harold G. Foster, First Lieut. Henry W. Kunkel, First Lieut. Albert J. Clayton, Second Lieut. Ralph L. Lawter?all of whom were killed. A board of inquiry found that the pilots had approached each other at their ships' "blind angles," each being invisible from the other's cockpit...