Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past four ice ages in a million years have not been accounted for by anything happening on the earth. Furthermore the varying output of heat from the sun could not have caused the great terrestrial temperature changes...
...long-range radiation rays, says Menzel, which usually fly off from the earth, would be stopped by the cloud and retained. Thus the weather would be come warmer, the proper weather for an ice age. More water would evaporate from the earth and fall at the poles as snow, compress itself into ice and start moving as a glacier...
Professor Menzel continues to point out that the hypothetical dust cloud which enveloped the earth was thicker at some places than at others. When the world passed through a thick mass of dust, the earth experienced fairly warm weather and the tropics probably flourished. Then as the planet passed into thinner areas, the earth would grow cold and led packs formed...
...delegation was doing what it could to bring UNESCO down to dry earth by backing practical Minister Torres Bodet's election, and by insisting that each division of the organization provide competent working plans for every project for which funds are required. But there was another hurdle in the path that could not be surmounted by hardheaded business methods alone. That was the tendency of UNESCO delegates to avert their eyes from the very issues that needed to be faced most squarely...
...tired old dog who asked what all the excitement was about. "Haven't you heard?" panted the rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They said nothing about rabbits, did they?" "Fool!" hissed the rabbit. "You don't know those people in the Kremlin. They'll emasculate me first-and then make me prove I'm not an elephant...