Word: earths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presenting to Vice President Garner a Pair of Sox to be Worn When He Has an Audience with the Emperor of Japan," to sombre views on mankind's future, viz.: "It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...
...whether or not there is animal life on the planet Mars; nobody knows whether or not it is possible to reach Mars with a radio signal. In 1924 a group of radio engineers trying to tune in Mars heard signals which they claimed they could not identify with an Earthly source. Last week, with Mars closer to the Earth than at any time since 1924, another group of radio engineers tried a more daring experiment: sending a signal Marsward in the hope that it would be reflected back, picked up again on Earth. They thought they might succeed...
...Martians were planning to send the Earth a signal, this week would be the time. If they send a light signal, the beacon will have to be of at least one and one-half trillion candlepower to be visible in Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope. No plans were afoot on Earth to communicate with Mars...
Since there is a better view of Mars this time from the Earth's southern hemisphere than from the northern, Dr. Slipher was last week posted at Harvard's observatory near Bloemfontein in South Africa. He discovered that Solis Lacus, a dark spot on Mars as big as the U. S. and located near the Martian south pole, had assumed a shape never before seen, or at least not in the last half-century. This change of shape, reasoned Old Marster Slipher, could be plausibly ascribed to the growth of fresh vegetation...
Judas wanted to see the Kingdom of Heaven achieved on earth. When he realized that the upsurge of Jewish nationalism inspired by Christ was likely instead to make the Romans sweep away the remnants of Jewish independence, he allowed the Sanhedrin to flatter him into thinking it was his glorious duty to stop the revolutionary movement. The payment of the 30 pieces of silver shocked him, showed him that he had been a common informer. "There was one refuge left...