Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview before he went to Australia for the project, Professor of Astronomy Jonathan E. Grindlay said he expected the balloon to rise approximately 130,000 feet, above 99.7 percent of the earth's atmosphere...
...course puts you in touch with the world ina way very few courses do," said AstronomyProfessor Charles A. Whitney, who has taught thecourse since Wright's retirement. "It's not justdoing calculations but gives you the feeling thatyou live in a spherical earth...
...throw even one of them away, even one that is silly or stupid or vicious and full of lies. How much more criminal, how much more a sin against consciousness, to burn a book. A question then: What if one were to gather from the corners of the earth all the existing copies of Mein Kampf and make a bonfire of them? Would that be an act of virtue? Or of evil...
...Oval Office was always a long shot. A freshman Senator who entered the race only after more notable Southern moderates such as Sam Nunn and Charles Robb had shied at the gate, Gore did well to survive until the finals. "If I had disappeared from the earth for six months and came back at the end of April to find that Al Gore was one of three candidates left, my reaction would have been near disbelief," says his friend Carter Eskew, a Washington political consultant...
Cornell is also in a unique situation. Since Ithaca is not a major professional sports town, Cornell hockey is the main attraction-Ithaca's version of the Greatest Show on Earth. Lynah Rink is consistently and boisterously sold...