Word: earths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years it makes powdery earth rise as from a beaten rug. In 1935 its driving fury made the Dust Bowl a national problem. Not since then has the high wind blown as it blew last week...
...great Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried to measure the velocity of light by means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. Light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second. In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are no bigger than a pin-head or at most a golf ball. Their great light energy is generated by the terrific speeds at which they hit the earth's atmosphere...
...moon rotates on its axis in the same period in which it revolves around the earth. Consequently the moon presents nearly the same hemisphere toward the earth at all times. It is always the face of the "man in the moon" that we see and never the back of his head...
...Chicago, Joseph Algori hoisted himself up 30 feet in a painter's scaffold to a newly painted sign of a pretty girl, proceeded to paint on her face a full Vandyck beard. On his return to earth, police arrested him on charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct, intoxication...