Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurtling unseen, hundreds of miles from the earth, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball passed over the world's continents and oceans one day last week. As it circled the globe for the first time, traveling at 18.000 m.p.h., the U.S. was blissfully unaware that a new era in history had begun, opening a bright new chapter in mankind's conquest of the natural environment and a grim new chapter in the cold...
PARIS, Oct. 10--The Soviet earth satellite has jolted the press of Western Europe from its orbit of assailing U.S. policy. After long second thought, these newspapers once more are looking to Washington...
...orbit, when it is established, will reveal the satellite's maximum and minimum distance from the earth. After this is determined, scientists will be able to calculate how long the satellite will stay aloft...
Certainly, the Eighth House has its unique potentialities. There may come a day when all members of the College will come to its walls to contemplate, with humility and compassion, those equally sincere souls who, a century ago, erected Memorial Hall upon the face of the earth and said it was good...
WILLIAM HARVEY, discoverer of the circulation of the blood: "He did delight to be in the darke, and . . . had Caves made in the Earth, in which in Summer time he delighted to meditate . . . Had he been stiffe, starcht, and retired, as other formall Doctors are, he had known no more than they [for] Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers of the Advancement of Learning ... He was wont to say that man was but a great mischievous Baboon ... He kept a pretty young wench . . . which I guesse he made use of ... as King David did ... After his Booke...