Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power . . . known as the nation of Celestial Space." He presented a fancy document to the Cook County Recorder, staking out a claim to "space in all directions . . . specifically exempting . . . every celestial body, whether star, planet, satellite or comet . . ." Then he debated selling chunks of space as big as the earth, for a dollar each...
...yelled threats from below, a plastered plumber named William Painter perched cheerily on Eros' neck and wings, twanged gaily on the god's bowstring, and provided one of the week's merriest, wackiest newspictures. After 40 minutes, London's firemen brought the miscreant down to earth. Next day both celebrants were resting quietly; the plumber in Brixton jail, the god in the hands of statue doctors. Damage to the god: $192. Damages to the plumber: three months in stir, and cost of the repairs...
...before the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam (TIME, Nov. 8) got a prompt reply. Barth, Niebuhr had said, was preaching a dangerous doctrine, which, by concentrating on the Kingdom of God, made no provision for the tragic, practical decisions Christian men and Christian nations must make on the earthly plane. Earth's answer, published in the British fortnightly Christian News-Letter under the heading: "A Preliminary Reply to Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr," struck a sharp issue...
Only Whisper It. This "irresponsible attitude" toward the Bible, suggests Earth, explains the absence of "a whole dimension" in "Anglo-Saxon" thinking...
...changed postwar models-all square, squat and as alike in appearance as cans in a crate. Out rolled more than 5,200,000 cars and trucks, about 8% more than 1947. The textile industry spun out 13,621 billion yards of cloth, enough to reach 311 times around the earth. Out of the whirring factories came 540 million pairs of nylons (10 pairs for every U.S. woman), 4,710,000 washing machines, 27.3 million radios, toasters and irons, more than 80 million auto tires...