Word: earths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt refers to the leaders of such movements as the "lunatic fringe." Their lunacy, if such it is, is ever among human beings, the urge of Something for Nothing. The moon which causes that lunacy may be the earth's satellite or human evolution, but the moon is powerful. It has created a tide in the affairs of men which this year crested in California under the name of "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday," alias "Ham & Eggs." Under this scheme the State would give everyone aged 50 or more $30 of State scrip every Thursday and retire the scrip...
...Gyro-frequency: the gyration frequency of an electron in the earth's magnetic field...
...describes as a man-eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other place on earth, outside of Hollywood. One certain effect of Dark Rapture will be to shatter this conviction...
...they would find thousands of clay tablets bearing the cuneiform writing of the ancient Sumerians, Assyrians and Babylonians. Deciphering these, the diggers would read of civilizations 3,000 years or more before the Christian era, would probably conclude that here was the peak of enlightenment which their predecessors on earth had reached. So argued Edward Chiera, late professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, in They Wrote on Clay, posthumously published last week...
...child's wonderment at earth...