Word: earths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominally Christianized western world, Christianity might sometimes seem an old, unhappy, far-off thing; but in the East, the bright star still went before, was still followed by eager seekers asking "Where is He?" Christ's mission on earth was a missionary enterprise: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. . . . Conscious of this command, and its full implications in an increasingly un-Christian world, on Christmas Day many a Western-Christian looked toward India, where, at Madras Christian College, 450 Christian men and women from 65 nations were gathered last week...
...have Hitler's fanatical face staring at us from the New Year's first issue of TIME, so soon after a season associated with the spirit of "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men," would be a shock to the sensibilities of all decent-hearted people and an insult to the democracy that is our country's most glorious tradition...
American Landscape (by Elmer Rice; produced by The Playwrights' Company). In the fall of 1934, after two of his plays (Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds) had been panned, Elmer Rice, calling first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," savagely forswore the theatre. But when The Playwrights' Company was formed last spring, Rice quietly chucked away his vow. Last week his American Landscape followed the Company's Knickerbocker Holiday and Abe Lincoln in Illinois to Broadway...
...years geologists have wondered what physiographic (earth-changing) agency caused wide alluvial plains-like the nine-mile valley floor east of Troy, N. Y.-which are out of all proportion to the deposits attributable to their present small streams. Last week Geologists Rudolf Ruedemann and Walter J. Schoonmaker of the New York State Museum solved the riddle, and at the same time implied that either geologists should get outdoors more or, when they did get out, should be looking at other things besides rocks. The physiographic force which had caused the Troy plain, and others like it, was the beaver...
Laboratory tests duplicate the pressure conditions in any part of the earth's outer crust--a granite layer extending down 30 to 50 miles. In some of the tests temperatures as high as 900 degrees Fahrenheit were employed...