Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile into still unshaken galleries to comfort the wives and children of missing workers. On Christmas Day the tremors continued. Even the gallery visited by King Baudouin caved in, and when a rescue-workers' tent set up on the hillside suddenly vanished into the bowels of the earth, all 150 rescue workers were withdrawn. Four mushroom growers were known dead, 14 were missing, and 20 injured. Among the missing: Pierre Heynen in his automobile. His father, Willem, whose initiative had helped bring prosperity to Zichen Zussen Bolder, groaned: "If only I had never started this! If only...
...girls, it was worth every minute of a ten-hour day. Like such cinemorsels as Top Star Madhubala and a few other lucky ones, any one of the lowly dancing girls may suddenly grow rajah-rich in the third biggest-and zani-est-movie industry on earth...
...materialist. That never stopped me from visiting churches . . . splendid monuments of the past ... I have heard some very good concerts in various churches and still like to attend them . . . Handel, Bach and Beethoven are among the greatest composers. They will surely be played and loved even after nobody on earth believes in God any more ... A true materialist can certainly hear a good concert of classical music in a church without losing his materialist virginity...
...Richard J. Lougee of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., offered a new theory. At the Washington meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he argued that the glacier did not retreat, but stayed in place so long that its enormous weight pushed a giant dimple in the earth's crust. When the glacier finally began to recede, the dimple filled with water and became an inland...
Even after the Mississippi settled into its modern bed, it remained and remains a geological curiosity. For, technically, it runs uphill. In a Department of Commerce publication, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey reported that the headwaters of the Mississippi are 3,956.17 miles from the center of the earth, while its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico is 3,960.22 miles from the center. As the Mississippi flows from Minnesota to the Gulf, it climbs 4.05 miles farther from the earth's center...