Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Addressing himself to the "colonial rabble before me in this far-flung corner of the earth," be-whiskered George William Pattison, a veteran of the British Royal Dragoons, said that sticking with Great Britain would have given Louisiana to the U.S. for nothing, averted the Civil War, the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and remarked that if there had been no revolution "you would be able to make a decent...
...demanding clear answers to specific questions on current U.S. policy towards China. His bright yellow dispatch case bulging with documents, Secretary Acheson took his weary bones up to Capitol Hill for a closed session with the Republicans. When it was over, the Secretary, like Cardinal Wolsey, needed a little earth for charity. Minnesota's tireless Walter H. Judd, onetime China medical missionary, who believes that the U.S. could still save China from the Reds if it only tried, had taken a short aim on the Secretary of State. Said Judd: "U.S. policy could almost be expressed in four words...
...meeting this month, and the bank will probably shut down and pay off. Schramer's valedictory was sorrowful: "We've tried to fight it off, but when the cashier couldn't take it any more we decided to close the bank. There's nothing on earth got a farm beat...
Last week, U.S. Army Ordnance did. A two-stage rocket, fired from White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., shot up 250 miles, more than twice the best height (114 miles) reached by the V2, and well outside the earth's gaseous atmosphere...
Army Ordnance can claim that it was the first to send a man-made object outside the earth's atmosphere. At 250 miles up, there is still some air. But it does not behave as a normal gas. Its scattered molecules act more like satellites of the earth, moving on orbits in the earth's gravitational field. Some are shooting up, others curving back. Some may be moving around the earth like infinitesimal moons. A few may escape from the earth entirely. For brief minutes, the WAC Corporal joined this throng of molecular wanderers...