Word: earths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerns Japan's invasion of China. It was made by Joris Ivens and John Ferno, whose Spanish Earth was the best documentary film of 1937, and whose trip to China last year was financed by screen and literary celebrities like Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett and William Osgood Field. Equipped with an accompanying commentary written by Dudley Nichols and recited by Actor Fredric March, The 400,000,000 sets out to show that China not only deserves to win its war but has a chance to do so, reaches a climax with the Chinese recapture of Taierhchwang...
...When the earth began to rumble and mongrel dogs to moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...
romantic figure on earth...
...windtunnel, just completed last fall for tests of model airplanes in wind speeds ranging up to 140 miles an hour. Here also is the Harvard Soil Mechanics laboratory, a pioneer in its field, where may be seen graphic experiments of the formation of quicksand, landslides, the failure of earth dams and building foundations, and frost heaving...
...research in communication engineering, are the experiments on sound, radio transmission, phonograph recording, and light, characteristics. Here is the station which maintains continuous automatic shortwave radio communication with Troy, N. Y. in an investigation of the ionosphere, the little understood deep-blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth a hundred or so miles from the ground and enable long-distance wireless communication...