Word: earths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before Vag climbs (mentally)into the cockpit of his sailplane--one of those white gull-winged ones that soar so silently over the countryside, miraculously holding itself off from the sordid earth beneath. Vag shoots into the air, makes use of several tricky thermals, then skillfully maneuvers the ship in a tight spiral under a great heavy cumulus cloud...
...people have done it, why shouldn't I, thinks Vag. So he plunges his plane into the darkness, and is suddenly surrounded by hail, sleet, and rain, coming from all directions. In a second the fabric on the wings is torn off. He and his ship hurtle towards the earth...
According to Donald Wyman '20, Horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum, there is no place like New England in the Fall. "Now England," he says, "is unusually fortunate in being located in one of the few regions of the earth where there is a brilliant Autumn color...
...large heaps of earth which were used as breastworks in the recent seige of the University in the partition of Cambridge battle will be removed when the work of laying the pipes for the increased electrical load is completed. This will not be in the near future, foremen said...
...Night had gathered her sable robes over the highest cliffs, and my ship reached through a shoreless sea of silver cloudlets brushed with the glint of the moon and myriad jewels in the dome above. Earth was behind as though my soul itself had left it. Heaven must be like this, I said...